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10/05/07
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The Nanny Diaries (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 123
Fresh: 41
Rotten:82
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Consensus: The Nanny Diaries' miscast lead and unrealistic, one-dimensional characters make this class satire far less effective than it should've been.
Theatrical Release: Aug 24, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $25,847,144
Synopsis: Loosely based on the bestselling roman à clef by Emma Mclaughlin and Nicola Kraus, THE NANNY DIARIES is the story of Annie Braddock (Scarlett Johansson), a fresh-out-of-college Jersey girl who is uncertain of her future. Annie's mother... [More]
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti, Alicia Keys
Director: Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman
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Reviews for The Nanny Diaries
Top Critic
It may be ready-made Oprah Book Club fare, but this adaptation of the novel by former nannies Emma McLaughin and Nicola Kraus is fun, even if it is occasionally shallow.
09/07/07
Top Critic
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.
08/27/08
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.
05/01/08
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.
02/28/08
Suficientemente divertido e tocante para merecer uma recomendação %u2013 mesmo que reconheçamos claramente o maniqueísmo empregado para alcançar estes efeitos.
01/11/08
Girlfriends Scarlett and Alicia Keys rule, with plenty of wise and candid back talk from the army of immigrant nanny lifers, who view Scarlett's nanny skeptically as a temp tourist in the exploitative, luckless biz.
12/02/07
With Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti bravely acting their brains out...
11/16/07
The Nanny Diaries is ultimately as shallow as the Upper East Side society it skewers, but more damaging is the lack of a truly dynamic star turn or romance that can turn these kind of movies into rainy day cable-TV staples.
11/08/07
If you have a cast which includes Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti, you ought to give them something better to work with than this botched adaptation.
10/12/07
But satire and emotional drama do not mix. When we giggle at the selfish enormities of this family’s lifestyle, we cannot be expected to weep for Johansson’s lonely hearted childminder.
10/12/07
This is supposed to be satire. But it is satire that behaves so predictably it isn’t worth studying.
10/12/07
Top Critic If Sofia Coppola were given a lobotomy and asked to remake The Devil Wears Prada for the au pair profession, she might have produced something like this horribly pleased-with-itself childcare comedy.
10/12/07
Despite that frequently saccharine tone, It’s worth catching for Linney’s ice-cold performance and a wonderfully snakey Giamatti.
10/12/07
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