
After his wife’s death, Michael loses track of what’s important. That’s why it’s strictly business between Michael and Faith, the attractive nanny he’s hired to take care of his troubled 7-year-old daughter, Lily. When Faith helps Lily deal with her mother’s death, she earns a place in Michael’s heart. But to keep Faith in their lives, Michael has to decide what’s really important to him.
Directed by Shawn Levy, Just in Time leans on a strong ensemble — Mark Moses, Rebecca Chambers, Brit Smith — to carry a story that balances spectacle with character.
The film landed with audiences for its craft and performances, and remains one of the most talked-about family titles of 1997.
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When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. Tanny's a wild boy, whom John cannot control, and one night he breaks into McCann's house, and steals the gold and disappears, which nearly confirms McCann's distrust of mankind. But then, a mysterious young woman dies in the snow outside McCann's house, and her small daughter makes her way to McCann's house and into McCann's life and heart.
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