Dangerous Snow Day (2021 Lifetime)
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Cast: Meredith Thomas, Kate Watson, Nicolette Langley, Matthew Pohlkamp, Alex Trumble
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Maggie is the au pair to one of the most well-known and wealthiest families in town, but the job is not nearly as glamorous as it may seem. While she adores the children, the parents are a problem. Between Kristen’s overbearing attempts at friendship and Frederick’s uninvited glances, it’s not exactly a warm and welcoming home or workplace. Frederick finally corners Maggie, and when she immediately rejects him, he becomes furious and fires her. And when she tries to find a new job, Maggie finds out that she has been blacklisted. Even worse, it seems that her life may be in danger as she starts to have close calls with “accidents.” Maggie must figure out how to keep both herself and the children she has come to love safe. But as a big storm settles in, Maggie realizes that she may not have seen all the danger. Nicolette Langley, Alex Trumble, Matthew Pohlkamp, Kate Watson star. (2021)
Recap/Wine Thoughts
The movie begins in a parking lot, WITH SNOW! A girl is walking to her car while texting. She is distracted, and someone attacks her when she drops her keys. The blonde woman is thrown into the trunk.
Cut to Maggie, a peppy/pretty nanny who is casually hit on by her boss Frederick while Kristen, his wife, isn’t around. They are a wealthy family with weekends in the Hamptons and a sauna in their home. Kristen is oblivious to her husband making passes at the attractive nanny.
Maggie goes out for drinks with her best friend Hannah and shares her concerns about Fredrick hitting on her. Maggie considers getting her master’s and leaving the au pair life behind. She doesn’t want to leave the kids behind.
Just as Maggie is about to tell the family that she will be moving on, they gift her an expensive necklace for Christmas. Maggie chickens out and offers to work part-time. The family is caught off guard, and the kids get upset. (Like the kids storm off at the thought of being taken care of by their mother.) Frederick asks Maggie to talk in his study. While they are alone, he propositions her for sex. Maggie slaps him across the face, and he fires her on the spot. Maggie leaves her wallet there, and Frederick throws it away.
Out on her own with no place to stay, Maggie calls Hannah from a payphone. Maggie was almost hit by a car and files a police report with the handsome Deputy Holden Hayes. Maggie shares that she thinks Frederick could have been driving the vehicle, given his anger when he fired her. Deputy Holden Hayes warns Maggie against accusing a powerful/wealthy man without proof. He gives her his card and tells her to call him day or night.
Maggie stays at a cheap motel, like a red light special kind of place. She can’t find her wallet anywhere! Someone tries to key into her room in the middle of the night, but it is just a drunk guy in the wrong room. Danger lurks everywhere because a woman walking her dog on a snowy mountain finds a dead body. The blonde girl from the beginning of the movie is the body.
Maggie has a job interview for another au pair job. The new father, Mike, seems to be a lot less of a creep. Mid-interview, he gets a call and abruptly asks her to leave. Maggie meets with Kristen to get her wallet and tells Kristen about her husband’s infidelities. Maggie also mentions that she thinks Fredrick is trying to kill her. Kristen doesn’t seem surprised and advises her former nanny to protect herself.
Maggie does just that after she is attacked in her motel room AND a stairwell, leaving Frederick’s office. Both times, Deputy Holden is there to “help” quickly. They review security footage and see a bumper sticker on a red car. Maggie opens up to him about being sexually assaulted by her boss and says he is a bad guy. Maggie gets upset when Holden doesn’t act on what she told him because he is worried about repercussions from a rich man.
Without a nanny gig lined up, Maggie stops by a diner and meets a woman named Ruth, who offers her a job to help her get back on her feet. Sure, she doesn’t have waitressing experience, but she’s good with people! Ruth suddenly changes her mind after checking her references and talking to Frederick. Hannah hooks Maggie up with a job, since she is a friend and doesn’t need to check references.
Kristen’s mother falls and needs to be taken care of, so she leaves town and asks Maggie to spend the night; Maggie reluctantly agrees and spends the night with the kids and Frederick. They make friendship bracelets and talk about the previous nanny who disappeared. Maggie finds a picture of the missing nanny and discovers nanny cams around the house. She brings the evidence to Deputy Holden.
While trailing, Fredrick Hannah is hit by a car, and she ends up in the hospital.
Deputy Holden brings Frederick in for questioning about the missing nanny’s disappearance and the car accident with Hannah. Frederick denies everything. He uses what he has learned about Maggie against him. Frederick lawyers up.
Maggie takes the kids to school when she gets a call from Kristen, who is freaking out because her husband is in jail. Kristen has bruises on her arms and is taking anti-anxiety pills. Kristen accuses Maggie of seducing her husband. Maggie explains that Kristen has been gaslit by her husband for years. Then Frederick comes home. He is pissed.
Frederick smashes a vase and screams at Maggie. When she makes a run for it, she grabs her and tells her that he didn’t kill the first nanny but will kill her. Then he is knocked out with a snow shovel by Kristen. Maggie thinks she is saved, but is also knocked out by Kristen.
Both Fredrick and Maggie wake up tied to a pillar. Kristen killed the nanny and framed Fredrick for the murder to maintain her reputation as the perfect wife and mother. Kristen and Fredrick struggle over a knife, and while the fight, Maggie frees herself. Deputy Holden is quickly nearby. He rushes in and arrests Kristen and Frederick.
Maggie and Deputy Holden raise the kids and start their own, very rushed family. (Until they find some foster parents.)
The end!
Side Note
The movie has nothing to do with snow days.
Brittany Underwood directed. I love that for her.
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*** I’ve updated the rating system moving forward. Knives represent # of kills. Wine is over enjoyment (NOT a value judgment) on a 1-5 scale.
I will use the following tags for those who want to know whether to watch or skip: Pour it Up (Would Recommend) or Put A Cork In It (Would Not Recommend).
Overall rating
Number of Kills: 🔪🔪 (2 Knives)
Enjoyment Level: 🍷🍷🍷 (3 glasses of wine.)
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