A Nanny for Christmas (2010)

Ally is a smart young career woman who needs a new job. Samantha is a busy Beverly Hills advertising executive/mom whose too-well-mannered kids need some fun in their lives. And Danny ... See full summary »

Director:

Michael Feifer

Writers:

Michael Ciminera (screenplay), Richard Gnolfo (screenplay)

Stars:

Emmanuelle Vaugier, Dean Cain, Richard Ruccolo

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Emmanuelle Vaugier	...	Ally Leeds
Dean Cain	...	Danny Donner
Richard Ruccolo	...	Justin Larose
Cynthia Gibb	...	Samantha Ryland
Sierra McCormick	...	Jackie Ryland
Jared Gilmore	...	Jonas Ryland
Sarah Thompson	...	Tina
Clyde Kusatsu	...	Mr. Halligan
John Burke	...	Carl Ryland
Caia Coley	...	Carol
Marla Maples	...	Brandy
Keith Dobbins	...	Santa Claus
Barry Barnholtz	...	Dan
Shirell Ferguson-Coleman	...	First Waitress
Katie Condidorio	...	Second Waitress

Storyline

Ally is a smart young career woman who needs a new job. Samantha is a busy Beverly Hills advertising executive/mom whose too-well-mannered kids need some fun in their lives. And Danny Donner is the tough-guy owner of a chocolate company who wants a major ad campaign immediately. Could these three lives intertwining lead to the Christmas that changes everyone's worlds forever?

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Plot Keywords:

christmas | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 November 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

Dadus karácsonyra

Filming Locations:

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$2,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

ARO Entertainment, Barnholtz Entertainment, Hybrid

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Emmanuelle Vaugier and Dean Cain both appeared on Smallville which is the early years of Superman and Dead Cain also played Clark Kent/Superman on Lois & Clark.

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Soundtracks

How About You
Written by: Scott Nickoley, Jamie Dunlap, and Stephen Lang

User Reviews

Too much plot

I love all the silly, "you can see the happy ending after the first 3 minutes" Christmas movies. I love them. I watch a ton every year. But this one just doesn't know what it wants to be and fails miserably trying. This movie has at least 4 (maybe 5) typical Christmas movie plots going at once, and doesn't have enough time to develop motivation of characters or resolutions for any them. Even for a Christmas movie people act in extremely contrived ways. You can't figure out why they would do that. And you don't really like them enough to care. Back stories are hinted at but not developed. It seemed the author had no idea how to set up the situation so just randomly got people to move to starting places for the story. Then there is too much plot to resolve, so abracadabra a small event or two suddenly makes everyone make decisions to tie up a happy ending for all the plots elements. Motivations for change are completely inadequate. If they had picked one or two of the several problems in the characters lives and focused on motivations and resolutions for that, it could have been a good movie. But it wasn't.