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
Plot Summary:
"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 Park Avenue
Hottie (Evans), and she's forced to explore her identity as never before
EN 5 Second Review:
If you read the book, this is one movie that will piss
you off, if not, you can put it aside anyway. It's that rare chick flick
that even chicks won't like.
The
unfaithful film adaptation so undermines the novel's spiky
social satire that it constitutes some kind of aesthetic
crime Colin Covert: Minneapolis Star
Tribune
The film dumbs down the story while cutesifying it. Scarlett
Johansson plays Annie, a gawky Jersey girl just out of
college and torn between careers in anthropology and finance...more
An
irresistible guilty pleasure Josh Larsen: Sun Publications If you've ever rushed your kids from
preschool to swimming lessons while a granola bar in the car
serves as lunch for everyone along the way, this will be an
irresistible guilty pleasure...more
It
sounds like the ultimate chick flick with crossover
potential --
Scarlett Johansson learning a lot about life and a little
about love in a film based on a cornerstone of chick lit --
but not even chicks will get much out of The Nanny
Diaries Bill Goodykoontz: Arizona Republic The Nanny Diaries aims to be many things at once -
comedy, cultural critique, sharp object aimed at the
puffed-up balloon that is Upper East Side family life - but
winds up falling flat on all counts...more
Release Date: August 24, 2007
The
unfaithful film adaptation so undermines the novel's spiky
social satire that it constitutes some kind of aesthetic
crime
An
irresistible guilty pleasure