Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #95526 in VHS
• Released on: 1993-09-29
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Running time: 108 minutes

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One from the prefab feel-good section, about the relationship between what's now called a child-care-giver (and used to be called a nanny) and the young boy she looks after. In this case, the nanny is a Jamaican named Clara, played with appropriate warmth and dialect by Whoopi Goldberg--and her charge is played by Neil Patrick Harris, who would go on to become Doogie Howser. This one is strictly for the bleeding-heart set, with Clara as the all-knowing source of wisdom in a crazy world, enabling the go-go life of her yuppie employers, while she opens their little boy's eyes to how the other half lives, even teaching him Jamaican patois. This film doesn't just tug at the heartstrings--it attempts to yank them clean out of the chest. --Marshall Fine