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63
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63
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62
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61
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58
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57
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56
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55
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55
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Nanny Diaries, The
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FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for language
Starring
Scarlett Johansson,
Laura Linney,
Paul Giamatti,
Alicia Keys,
Cady Huffman,
Nicholas Art,
Donna Murphy,
and
Chris Evans
The Nanny Diaries tells the story of the emotional and often humorous journey of Annie Braddock, a young woman from a working-class neighborhood in New Jersey, as she struggles 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 neighbor of the X's who she nicknames Harvard Hottie, and is finally forced to explore what she wants to do with her life. (The Weinstein Company)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Drama
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Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Nicola Kraus (novel)
Emma McLaughlin (novel)
Robert Pulcini
Shari Springer Berman
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Robert Pulcini
Shari Springer Berman
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 4, 2007
Theatrical: August 24, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
106 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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75
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Berman and Pulcini, who turned Harvey Pekar's graphic memoir into the visually inventive, Oscar-nominated "American Splendor," dress this film as an anthropological field diary and add several fabulous touches.

75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
A late-summer delight, a sleek, handsomely made bauble buoyed by a cast much stronger than the flimsy material deserves.

75
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
The film belongs to Linney, whose caustic putdowns and status-seeking veneer barely hides her genuine hurt over her husband's philandering and her distant relationship to her own child. No doubt her diaries would be more compelling than the nanny's.

70
Time
Richard Schickel
Something of an odd-duck movie. It is not a broad comedy or a wildly romantic one, either. Nor is it Edith Wharton lite. But it does partake of all those modes in intelligently observant ways.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Meghan Peters
Although Johansson has a knack for nailing most roles, the angry yet fun-loving nanny doesn't quite work for her.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie itself is sort of bland and obvious and comfortable.

63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Johansson, hair dyed brown to make her seem less glamorous, spices up this bland role.

63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Weak dramatically, and that limits its overall effectiveness.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
There's a good movie buried inside The Nanny Diaries, and a good cast trying hard to dig it out. Too bad they don't get much help.

60
Empire
Staff (Not credited)
Johansson is no Anne Hathaway in this pleasant but forgettable comedy.

50
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
An adamantly unterrible picture, a reasonably enjoyable diversion.

50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Despite some clever early fantasy scenes, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's adaptation of best seller The Nanny Diaries won't make Bridget Jones give up her writing.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Satire should be knife-sharp and whip-smart, and The Nanny Diaries never is.

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
They should've thrown everything away except the title and the outline. That's what the "Devil Wears Prada" creative team did, and that film turned out a lot richer than this one.

50
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Awash in spurious sentimentality and sniping.

50
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Linney -- this has happened too much to her -- is once again the best thing in a movie that at most achieves a certain mediocrity.

50
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Because The Nanny Diaries is essentially a two-character story whose supporting players are wooden props, it would help if the actors playing the two were evenly matched. But Ms. Johansson’s Annie, who narrates the movie in a glum, plodding voice, is a leaden screen presence, devoid of charm and humor.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
The comedy has several inspired moments and a genuine flair for the satiric, but overall the film leaves you cold.

50
Variety
Lael Loewenstein
Rarely rises above standard sitcom fare.

50
Village Voice
Scott Foundas
Like the book, the Nanny Diaries movie never finds a dramatic center.

50
Slate
Dana Stevens
Watching the movie is a nonexperience--like the Upper East Side apartment where most of the action takes place, it's lavishly appointed but joyless.

50
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
The social bite of the popular novel fades into a generic chick flick.

50
USA Today
Claudia Puig
The very rich are different from you and me. And much worse. That's basically the message of the disappointingly banal Nanny Diaries, a film that is even more lightweight and clichéd than the fluff that was the best-selling book.

50
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Reading this book and watching this movie, as with "The Devil Wears Prada" a year earlier, I'm convinced that chick-lit books are formula - and chick-lit movies are baby formula.

50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The movie's banal fantasies badly chafe any anthropological consideration of what a girl should do with her career. This isn't life. It's Lifetime.

50
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The characters are instantly reversible--the bratty kid turns out to be a sweetie pie, the mother just needs to be told off. Only Giamatti, as the cliched businessman husband, is irredeemable.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
For a light comedy, The Nanny Diaries turns out to have an off-putting theme. It glorifies the romance of slumming.

40
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
As you watch the nannies mistreated and the children left to cry themselves to sleep, the only surprise is that there are no surprises. It’s zombie-land.

40
The New Yorker
David Denby
The material has been turned into a trivially narcissistic product for teen-age girls who want to feel indignant about wrongs they are unlikely to suffer.

38
Premiere
Deborah Day
The supporting players do a serviceable job in their roles, but no amount of Oscar-nominee nuance from Giamatti or Linney can salvage what amounts to a candy-striped trifle for post-collegiate slacker existentialists.

30
Wall Street Journal
Joanne Kaufman
So tightly constructed of clichés, stereotypes and chick-lit tropes that it's inert; no fresh air can blow in.

30
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
An awful lot of good talent has been squandered in this by-the-numbers film.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
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.

12
New York Post
Kyle Smith
A comedic sinkhole, a dramatic tundra.


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