Undercover Angel (1999)

Synopsis: Tyler (Winters) is forced to churn out prose while he works on his novel. With his landlord eager to evict him, help comes from his ex-girlfriend's daughter, Jenny. Jenny kindles a romance between Tyler and the neighborhood beauty, Holly (Bleeth), and gets his manuscripts into the hands of a publisher. As everyone involved soon finds out, when Jenny's around, anything can happen!

Cute movie

I love this movie. It is a romance about a guy who takes care of a little girl for his ex-girlfriend for a couple of weeks and how it totally changes his life for the better. I was so happy to find it here on Amazon.com and be able to own it on DVD. The only down side is that the movie is not closed-captioned or subtitled. I am hard of hearing and that would have been helpful. The sound quality on the DVD was very clear and I was able to hear the whole thing when I turned up the volume though. July 17, 2008

Don't miss this one

A struggling writer gets a surprise visit from an ex-girlfriend he hasn't seen for six years. She's now a successful, busy lawyer who wants him to babysit her six-year-old daughter for two weeks. At first awkward and at a loss, he is gradually warmed by the precocious little girl, who wrangles an introduction to a woman he's had his eye on, and gets him to tell her a bedtime story which she secretly records and sends to a publisher. He comes to love the little girl and she him and both dread the day when the mother comes back. But the biggest surprise of all comes when he discovers that the little girl is his daughter. Then, the mother returns.

Fortunately, the moviemaker did not make the casting mistakes so often made in family movies recently. The little girl is delightful and very appealing. The girlfriend is not only pretty but appealing. All look much, much better that their pictures on the DVD cover (but then, isn't that true for almost all DVD covers?).

The character/casting of the man, the central character, is regrettable. He is whiney throughout, even after his success. This hurts the movie and may account for why this good movie is going off the market so soon. His courtroom appearance even strains credibility: everyone knows to be decorous in a court appearance.

The movie begins inappropriately with a scene from the mystery novel the man is trying to write. This is unnecessary, misleading and inappropriate. But it is mercifully brief (only a couple of minutes). June 4, 2006

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