The Nanny Diaries Release Date: August 24, 2007 Studio: MGM, The Weinstein Company Director: Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman Screenwriter: Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman Starring: Alicia Keys, Chris Evans, Donna Murphy, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti,
Scarlett Johansson Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for language) Official Website:TheNannyDiariesmovie.com
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“The Nanny Diaries” tells the story of the emotional and often humorous journey of Annie Braddock
(Johansson), a young woman from a working-class neighborhood in New Jersey, struggling
to understand her place in the world. Fresh out of college, she gets tremendous
pressure from her nurse mother to find a respectable position in the business
world although Annie would prefer to trade in her blackberry for an anthropologist's
field diary. Through a serendipitous meeting, Annie ends up in the elite and
ritualistic culture of Manhattan's Upper East Side -- as remote from Annie's
suburban New Jersey upbringing as life in an Amazon tribal village. Choosing
to duck out of real life, Annie accepts the position as a nanny for a wealthy
family, referred to as simply "the X's." She quickly learns that life is not
very rosy on the other side of the tax bracket, as she must cater to the every
whim of Mrs. X (Linney) and her precocious son Grayer, while attempting to avoid
the formidable Mr. X (Giamatti). Life becomes even more complicated when Annie
falls for a gorgeous neighbor of the X’s (Evans) who she nicknames Harvard
Hottie, and is forced to explore what she wants to do with her life.— More here
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The social bite of the popular novel fades into a generic chick
flick.
Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times
It's not particularly funny as moments go, but it is particularly
telling. Like its boring heroine, "The Nanny Diaries" ambivalently
mocks what it aspires to, or aspires to what it mocks. . . . one
or the other, it's hard to tell. Based on the 2002 novel "The
Nanny Diaries," written by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus,
the movie provides a more-or-less faithful enactment of the major
plot points, taking care to omit most of what made the book enjoyable.
Satire that sputters when its characters refuse to grow out of
caricature.
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
Satire that sputters when its characters refuse to grow out of
caricature.
Johansson is game. There's nothing to criticize in this performance,
but there's nothing to get excited about, either. It's solid though
uninspired work. The same can be applied to this film. Unlike "American
Splendor," "Nanny" feels formulaic with a few cute
touches but unmarked by the fierce wit of "Splendor."
`Nanny Diaries' Is a Letdown
Christy Lemire
Associated Press
The real letdown comes from knowing that the film is from Shari
Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, the husband-and-wife writing-directing
team behind the thrillingly inventive American Splendor.
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