The Nanny Diaries (2007) (original) (raw)
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Original title
The Nanny Diaries
Year
2007
Running time
106 min.
Country
United States
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Genre
Comedy. Romance | Comedy-Drama
Synopsis
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.
Critics' reviews
- "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"
- "The comedy has several inspired moments and a genuine flair for the satiric, but overall the film leaves you cold."
- "The social bite of the popular novel fades into a generic chick flick."
- "A film that is even more lightweight and clichéd than the fluff that was the best-selling book."
- "A late-summer delight, a sleek, handsomely made bauble buoyed by a cast much stronger than the flimsy material deserves."
- "Linney is once again the best thing in a movie that at most achieves a certain mediocrity"
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