The Nanny Diaries (2007)
Alicia Keys, Chris Evans, Donna Murphy
A 21-year-old New York University student becomes a nanny to a family on the Upper East Side who turns out to be the family from hell.The story of the journey of Annie Braddock, a young woman from a working-class neighborhood in New Jersey, struggling to understand her place in the world. Fresh out ...
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A 21-year-old New York University student becomes a nanny to a family on the Upper East Side who turns out to be the family from hell.The story of the journey of Annie Braddock, 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 and her precocious son Grayer, while attempting to avoid the formidable Mr. X. Life becomes even more complicated when Annie falls for a gorgeous Park Avenue Hottie, and she's forced to explore her identity as never before.
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PG-13, 1 hr. 46 min.
Directed by:
Robert Pulcini,
Shari Springer Berman
Release Date: Aug 24, 2007
DVD Release Date: Dec 04, 2007
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This move was very entertaining and Scarlett Johannson is always great to see.
Kind of a husk of a movie with no real conflict other than the fact that we're all pretty aimless in life...it has quirky moments, nothing laugh out loud at all, and I suppose could give some insight to the life of the extremely wealthy elite, but wh... (read more) Kind of a husk of a movie with no real conflict other than the fact that we're all pretty aimless in life...it has quirky moments, nothing laugh out loud at all, and I suppose could give some insight to the life of the extremely wealthy elite, but who knows. Its entertainment, period. Was interesting enough to enjoy at least.
it's a very good and inspiring movie......Scarlett Johansson does a great job portraying Annie.......and totally agree with her, wealthiness doesn't mean everything, elites still have their own problems and might not enjoy their lives as nicer as typ... (read more) it's a very good and inspiring movie......Scarlett Johansson does a great job portraying Annie.......and totally agree with her, wealthiness doesn't mean everything, elites still have their own problems and might not enjoy their lives as nicer as typical working class......
It was nice. You really have to sit through all of it before you appreciate the story. In fact the writing gets better as you move along so you are kind of rewarded for sitting through all of it. Nothing special here though but not time wasted.
I'm kind of sort of maybe in love with Scarlett Johansson. You can probably safely ignore whatever I have to say about this movie.
Update: on second watch, I was very bored, but I feel I gained something from the exhibit. The styling is alternately ... (read more) I'm kind of sort of maybe in love with Scarlett Johansson. You can probably safely ignore whatever I have to say about this movie.
Update: on second watch, I was very bored, but I feel I gained something from the exhibit. The styling is alternately timid and overdone. Paul Giamatti lends some weight as an eerily horrible husband and father.
It was cute for what it was. I would not have paid money to see it in movies through.
Cute, but not substantial. Think Jenny Gardner flick meshed with Mean Girls. Good for a Sunday afternoon playing in the background while you are doing other things.
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But satire and emotional drama do not mix. When we giggle at the selfish enormities of this family's lifestyle, we cannot be expected to weep for Johansson's lonely hearted childminder.full review
Whatever its faults are, The Nanny Diaries is hardly the disaster that the gossipmongers -- including, perhaps, even the studio that made it -- want us to believe.full review
A film that is even more lightweight and clichéd than the fluff that was the best-selling book.full review
There's something painful about watching Scarlett Johansson, who looks as if she never had an indecisive moment in her life, struggle to seem ineffectual.full review
Too false to be funny, too pat to be real.full review
Satire should be knife-sharp and whip-smart, and The Nanny Diaries never is.full review
The unfaithful film adaptation so undermines the novel's spiky social satire that it constitutes some kind of aesthetic crime.full review
The Nanny Diaries -- though basically a light entertainment -- breaks movie culture's unspoken taboo against class consciousness.full review
The movie shouldn't open in the Museum of Natural History but the Museum of the Moving Image -- with a display of chick-flick clichés through the ages.full review
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