After graduating from Montclair State, New Jersey Girl Annie can't make up her mind about what to do with her life. After saving a little boy from being run over in the park, she is quickly employed as a nanny for a rich Upper East Side couple. Mr X is occupied with his business, Mrs X loves shopping and none of them really likes to spend time with their little boy Grayer. Annie quickly learns th... at she has more than her hands full with taking care of him. Her busy schedule doesn't give her much spare time. Mrs X fired her last nanny because she was dating and that gives Annie problems when Harvard Hottie who lives in the same building asks her out on a date.
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Nanny Diaries, The Scarlett Johansson takes a job for Laura Linney's Fifth Avenue rich bitch in this comedy-drama, co-directed by the team behind American Splendor
Adapted by the husband-and-wife team who were Oscar-nominated for the inventive American Splendor, The Nanny Diaries treads very similar territory to The Devil Wears Prada.
Both are set in New York and based on books that concern the experiences of ordinary young women trying to find their way in the world amid the grotesqueries of wealthy Manhattan.
In The Nanny Diaries, the young woman in question is Annie Braddock (Scarlett Johansson), the daughter of a hard-working New...
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 clich??d than the fluff that was the best-selling book.
The movie falters mostly by giving us caricatures rather than full-bodied characters. Though given its source material, the lightly satirical chick-lit novel of the same name, it's hard to imagine the film being substantial or truly biting.
Still, the choice of directors made one hope for more. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini wrote and directed the film, and their last effort was the splendidly original and funny...
Dull Diaries
I have an eclectic taste in films and will watch almost anything - unfortunately this one did not keep my interest. If you work with children, or your life is preoccupied with them then you will enjoy this film. To be fair the acting was good, but the whole Nanny storyline for me was dull. I gave this 1 star only because it had some well known faces.
