The Watchful Eye

Matt Roush says...

Where’s the Only Murders in the Building crew when you need them? They’d be fascinated by the case of Elena (Mariel Molino), who moves into a similarly historic, yet sinister, Manhattan apartment building as nanny to a 7-year-old whose mom mysteriously plunged to her death six months earlier. The wealthy widower (Warren Christie) who hired her seems nice enough, but the victim’s neighboring sister (Amy Acker) is a total ice queen who doesn’t trust Elena. That’s the set-up for a middling thriller where even the heroine has a secret agenda, one that could prove perilous to her well-being. And that’s even before she meets the imperious Mrs. Ivey (Gilmore Girls’ grand Kelly Bishop), the dead woman’s aunt, who enlists the young newbie to be her spy on the family’s dark doings. Everybody’s watching everyone on The Watchful Eye.

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