While the Children Sleep (also known as
The Sitter) is a 2007 made-for-television horror film released on the
Lifetime Movie Network. The film is about a couple who hires a live-in nanny (
Mariana Klaveno) who inserts herself increasingly into the family routine. Then friends of the family begin to have mysterious accidents, as the nanny conspires to replace the mother through murder. The film's plot was compared by reviewers to the 1992 film
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and the 2001 film
The Glass House, as well as others.