Au Pair (film)

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Au Pair
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Written byJeffrey C. Sherman
Cheryl Saban
Directed byMark Griffiths
Starring
Music by Inon Zur
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producersLance H. Robbins
Cheryl Saban
Producer Mike Elliott
CinematographyBlake T. Evans
EditorJohn Gilbert
Running time96 minutes
Production company Saban Entertainment
Original release
Network Fox Family Channel
ReleaseAugust 22, 1999 (1999-08-22)
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Au Pair is a 1999 American made-for-television romantic comedy film starring Gregory Harrison and Heidi Noelle Lenhart. The film is the first in the Au Pair trilogy. [1]

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Plot

Jennifer "Jenny" Morgan (Heidi Noelle Lenhart) is a young and intelligent working-class woman who just graduated from UCLA with an MBA. She is engaged to Charlie, a feckless man who intends to spend his summer traveling around Europe. After a job offer falls through, she finds herself searching and responds to a promising job ad for Oliver Caldwell's (Gregory Harrison) company, Caldwell Corporation International (CCI). She gets an interview and is led to believe that it is a copy room position, which she decides to move forward with, thinking it would be a foot into the company. Jenny gets the job and is surprised and overwhelmed when a car and its chauffeur show up at her door, telling her to pack and that she is to leave for Paris in a couple of hours. Through a series of errors, Jenny is baffled to discover that she was hired to be the au pair for Oliver's two children, Katie (Katie Volding) and Alex (Jake Dinwiddie).

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Release

The film was originally released in 1999. It has had the most viewers in the network's TV Movie history. [2] The film has been released on Region 4 DVD.

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References

  1. "'Au Pair 3': It's time to call it quits". Entertainment Weekly. 16 March 2009. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  2. Fox Family Channel's 'Au Pair' Movie Delivers Largest Audience In Family Channel's 22-Year History. - PR Newswire - HighBeam Research