The Nanny Diaries
Posted on December 3, 2007 at 10:17 pm
C| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | PG-13 for language |
| Profanity: | Some strong language |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Emotional turmoil and confrontations |
| Diversity Issues: | Economic, racial, and cultural diversity |
| Date Released to Theaters: | August 24, 2007 |
| Date Released to DVD: | December 4, 2007 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B000VKL6T8 |
Oh, we all love to feel superior to rich people, don’t we? It makes us feel so nice and smug. They may have the fancy apartments and couture, but we have a lock on authenticity and unpretentiousness, right? That’s what “The Nanny Diaries” wants to tell us, anyway. Its talented cast and some inspired visuals cannot enliven a superficial story.
Annie (Scarlett Johansson) has just graduated from college with a degree in business. Her mother, a nurse, wants her to get a job on Wall Street. But she bungles the interview. Later, in Central Park, a wealthy woman referred to only as Mrs. X (Laura Linney) from Manhattan’s tony East Side offers her a job as a nanny. No one on Wall Street may be interested in her, but she learns she is “the Chanel bag of nannies,” the ultimate accessory, because she is white, single, and has a college education.
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