THE WRONG BABYSITTER

Canada, 2017, 89 minutes, Colour.
Daphne Zuniga, Britt Irvin, Matt Bellefleur, Lisa Marie Caruk, Lochlyn Munro.
Directed by George Mendeluk.

This is a kidnap thriller made for television, a film from Canada with an American setting.

The focus is on an artist played by Daphne Zuniga whose husband, detective, was murdered several years earlier while working on the case. Their daughter intends to work for the police. The occasion for the murder was investigation of a kidnapping.

Now, the daughter is kidnapped but shows her resolve leaving clues for her mother and the police to follow. She has been kidnapped while the next door neighbour, a sympathetic friend who runs the administration in the school, has been babysitting.

The kidnappers are fairly incompetent but are eager to get ransom money. Twist is that one of the kidnappers is the younger brother of the next-door neighbour who has masterminded the whole situation and, in fact, has killed the detective husband.

The mother and her friend are suspicious of the local policeman, her husband’s partner, and pursue the clues themselves, information from a local garage, a message from the daughter written on the wall of the toilet, calculating the melting of ice cream…

The policeman also picks up a number of the clues and works out who the villain is and, with a siege, all resolved.