The Nanny Diaries (2007)
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 129
Fresh: 43 | Rotten: 86
The Nanny Diaries' miscast lead and unrealistic, one-dimensional characters make this class satire far less effective than it should've been.
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 43
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 35
The Nanny Diaries' miscast lead and unrealistic, one-dimensional characters make this class satire far less effective than it should've been.
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Adapted from the best-selling novel, the whimsical, heartwarming comedy The Nanny Diaries concerns Annie Braddock (Scarlett Johansson), a recent college graduate from New Jersey whose nurse mother makes an unsuccessful bid to pressure her into a white-collared business career. Sidetracking this path for more colorful pursuits, Annie accepts a position as nanny and domestic servant for a wealthy couple on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, known only as "The Xs" (Paul Giamatti and a heavily
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Laura Linney
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Paul Giamatti
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Alicia Keys
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Judith Roberts
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The conclusion is desperately trite, but Linney's performance helps this comedy - based on a novel by two nannies, take note - feel like a credible peek behind very expensive curtains.
Top Critic'The Nanny Diaries': Huh? It's supposed to be a comedy?
The Nanny Diaries, despite many bright moments and a superior level of craftsmanship, is now a flabby urban fairy tale.
This is the sort of ho-hum production that will likely seem less disappointing on a smaller screen.
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.
A clever, satiric novel turned dull-witted movie.
For viewers who thought The Devil Wears Prada was way too hard-hitting
Stalled out in mediocre-land, and choices like the narration, the overbearingly cutesy art direction and costume design, and even preserving the convention of calling them Mr. and Mrs. X pulled you out of the story and dragged it down.
Where's Mary Poppins when you need her?
Here's hoping that the very talented [Shari] Springer [Berman] and [Robert] Pulcini get a crack at a script that's worthy of their talents for their third time at bat.
...can't help but come off as something of a disappointment...
By painting with too broad a brush, Nanny gets laughs at the expense of any sort of deeper commentary the filmmakers were obviously hoping to achieve.
Suficientemente divertido e tocante para merecer uma recomendação %u2013 mesmo que reconheçamos claramente o maniqueísmo empregado para alcançar estes efeitos.
In his commentary, exec-producer Harvey Weinstein says he offered a $100,000 bounty for the identity of Mrs. X, but in Confessions from the Original Nannies, the book's authors insist she was a fictional amalgam.
Girlfriends Scarlett and Alicia Keys rule, in this girl fight class warfare class act.
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