Nanny

[Opens Dec. 2 in theaters and available Dec. 16 on Amazon Prime Video.] Nikyatu Jusu's award-winning, multilayered, eerie, surreal, unsettling, intense, well-acted, 98-minute psychological thriller highlighted by stunning visuals and punctuated by a surprise ending in which an undocumented, anxiety-prone Senegalese teacher (Anna Diop), who misses her son (Jpahleel Kamara) and dreams of earning enough money to bring him to the U.S. from Africa, is hired as a nanny by a well-to-do photojournalist (Morgan Spector) and his uptight office worker wife (Michelle Monaghan) to care for their precocious daughter (Rose Decker), and when she moves into their Tribeca apartment, she begins to sense supernatural forces and to have terrifying nightmares and daytime hallucinations related to African folklore and finds support from her doorman boyfriend (Sinqua Walls) and his grandmother (Leslie Uggams).
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