Nanny is the haunting and award-winning debut feature from writer/director Nikyatu Jusu. It’s the first horror film to win the Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, and only the second time this honor has been bestowed upon a Black female director. Which makes it both an award-winner and a record-setter. And now it’s headed to both theaters (November 23) and Prime Video (December 16).
At its core, Nanny is a genre-bending film that blends psychological horror with culturally relevant issues of social identity, including race, gender, and socioeconomic status.
Set in New York City, this fable of a Senegalese immigrant’s experience working for an affluent family is grounded in the real-life experiences of domestic workers. The story is personal to Nikyatu Jusu’s upbringing, whose mother sustained her household with this occupation. Jusu also incorporated spiritual genre elements that spoke to her lineage.
In addition to the official storyline, let’s check out who’s in it as well as the trailer.
Nanny Storyline
In this psychological horror fable of displacement, Aisha (Anna Diop), a woman who recently emigrated from Senegal, is hired to care for the daughter of an affluent couple (Michelle Monaghan and Morgan Spector) living in New York City. Haunted by the absence of the young son she left behind, Aisha hopes her new job will afford her the chance to bring him to the U.S. but becomes increasingly unsettled by the family’s volatile home life. As his arrival approaches, a violent presence begins to invade both her dreams and her reality, threatening the American dream she is painstakingly piecing together.
Nanny Cast
It stars Anna Diop (US), Michelle Monaghan (Mission: Impossible – Fallout), Sinqua Walls (American Soul), Morgan Spector (The Gilded Age), Rose Decker (Mare of Easttown), and Leslie Uggams (Deadpool).
Nanny Trailer
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