Au Pair (film)

Au Pair is a 1999 television film starring Gregory Harrison and Heidi Noelle Lenhart.

Plot

Jennifer Morgan (Heidi Noelle Lenhart) is an MBA looking for a job as an executive at Oliver Caldwell’s (Gregory Harrison) company. Through a series of errors, she is given a job as the au pair for his children, Katie (Katie Volding) and Alex (Jake Dinwiddie).

The kids have been spoiled by Oliver since their mother died, and they have become quite the trouble makers. Oliver is engaged to Vivian Berger (Jane Sibbett), who dislikes the children and becomes jealous of Jennifer as she bonds with them. The kids, preferring Jennifer (though, in the beginning played pranks on her) to Vivian, play matchmaker, and expose the plotting Vivian for who she really is.

Later on, Jennifer, Alex, and Katie arrive at Oliver's splendidly beautiful castle, where Vivian has already made arrangements for their wedding and that they were going to get married that very evening. Oliver demands to speak with Jennifer and To Alex and Katie's dismay, Jennifer is mercilessly fired by their father (because Vivian told Oliver that Jennifer was plotting against his company) just moments before the ceremony begins. Alex, then, comes up with an idea to spy on Vivian and her clumsy, odd sisters. As the children, Nigel (family chauffeur) (John Rhys-Davies), and Oliver spy on Vivian in her boudoir, Vivian reveals her evil plots and schemes.

Au pair

An au pair (plural: au pairs) is a domestic assistant from a foreign country working for, and living as part of, a host family. Typically, au pairs take on a share of the family's responsibility for childcare as well as some housework, and receive a monetary allowance for personal use. Au pair arrangements are subject to government restrictions which specify an age range usually from mid-late teens to mid to late twenties; some countries explicitly limit the arrangement to females.

Arrangements differ between Europe, where the concept originated, and North America. In Europe, au pairs are only supposed to work part-time, and they often also study part-time, generally focusing on the language of the host country. In the United States, they are permitted to provide full-time childcare. In 1969, the European Agreement on Au Pair Placement was signed, and it came into force in 1971.

History

The title comes from the French term au pair, meaning "at par" or "equal to", indicating that the relationship is intended to be one of equals: the au pair is intended to become a member of the family, albeit a temporary one, rather than a traditional domestic worker.

Au pair (disambiguation)

An au pair is a person who takes care of children.

Au pair or au pairs can refer to:

See also

Au Pair 3: Adventure in Paradise

Au Pair 3: Adventure in Paradise, is a 2009 romantic comedy and is the third and final installment in the Au Pair trilogy, aired on ABC Family on March 15, 2009, and is the only film of the trilogy to be made under the control of Disney.

Synopsis

Eight years have passed since the events of Au Pair, and newly graduated as his high school's valedictorian, Alexander Caldwell joins his visiting sister, college freshman Katie and her roommate Ariana on a family summer vacation with father Oliver and stepmother Jenny. Oliver and Jenny's current nanny declines to join them and the over-worked parents/executives must take care of their newborn baby Sarah in Puerto Rico.

Amidst corporate scheming by the young company CFO Walter Hausen, who is planning a takeover of Oliver's company CCI Tekhausen (formed in Au Pair II), Oliver and Jenny must contend with bridging the generation gap with the family, new career motivations and the romances of their 'newly reformed' prankster kids.