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46 out of 100

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6.4 out of 10

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  • Starring: Laura Linney, Scarlett Johansson
  • Summary: 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)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 34
  3. Negative: 5 out of 34
  1. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Rene Rodriguez
    75
    A late-summer delight, a sleek, handsomely made bauble buoyed by a cast much stronger than the flimsy material deserves.
  2. Empire
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not credited)
    60
    Johansson is no Anne Hathaway in this pleasant but forgettable comedy.
  3. Premiere
    Reviewed by: Deborah Day
    38
    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.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 10
  3. Negative: 3 out of 10
  1. Erica
    9
    There were certainly some things that could be improved, but for the most I found this movie to be very pleasant. It was funny, well acted and charming. Even my boyfriend (whose favourite movie is 300) liked it, and he is hard to please.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. ChadS.
    5
    When Mrs. X(Laura Linney) finally reveals her sensitive side(like Miranda Preistly(Meryl Streep) in "The Devil Wears Prada"), her vulnerability beneath the mask of apathetic nonchalance, we're not buying it. She's more believable as an unrepentant bitch. Her epiphany doesn't come about organically. It's too formulaic, and downright idiotic. Didn't she screen the damn tape? Thanks to some convoluted writing, Scarlett Johannsen gets to make an obvious speech about bad parenting. Linney gets to cry. Even when "The Nanny Diaries" is a passable entertainment about self-centered rich people, the film is watered down by Annie's romance with Dean(John Henry Cox). She feels bad for Grayer(Nicholas Art), but apparently, not that bad. She gets some.… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  3. K.B.
    0
    It was the worst movie I have attempted to see in a really long time. I say attempted, because I didn't make it to the end. We managed a good 40 minutes into it -- which is about 30 minutes longer than my companions wanted to stay. Cheesy, cheesy, horrible writing. And just not funny or even cute.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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