Diablo Cody’s story of a mother and her night nanny is sharply written with some fine edge-of-the-seat moments but is let down by an exasperating ending
Much but not all of this movie’s good work is undone by its silly and unconvincing ending. A screenwriter less prestigious than the Oscar-winning Diablo Cody would probably get told to go away and come up with a third-act rewrite; as it is, the film finishes on an exasperating note, with retrospective questions about detail and plausibility. But never mind. Until then, we’d had a robustly acted, wittily written and intriguing psychological drama with edge-of-the-seat moments of dilemma in which the only challenge to disbelief suspension had been the idea that Charlize Theron doesn’t look like a film star.
Theron plays Marlo, a mother-of-two, heavily pregnant with a third baby. She is very stressed with her son who has behavioural problems. Her husband Drew (Ron Livingston in the central-casting standard-issue guy role) zones out in the evening and plays video games. When the baby comes, Marlo comes to the very brink of a breakdown through lack of sleep. She feels tired, useless, ugly. But then her annoying and rich brother Craig (Mark Duplass) offers her a present: hiring a “night nanny” for a month who will take the pressure off, deal with the baby all night, waking Marlo only when she needs feeds.
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