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The Nanny Diaries (12A) 100 mins"A comedy about life at the top, as seen from the bottom."
The Nanny Diaries tells the story of the emotional and often humorous journey of Annie Braddock (Scarlett Johansson), a young woman from a working-class neighborhood in New Jersey, struggling 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 (Laura Linney) and her precocious son Grayer, while attempting to avoid the formidable Mr. X (Paul Giamatti). Life becomes even more complicated when Annie falls for a gorgeous neighbour of the X’s whom she nicknames Harvard Hottie, and is forced to explore what she wants to do with her life.
"It may be ready-made Oprah Book Club fare, but this adaptation of the novel by former nannies Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus is fun, even if it is occasionally shallow. It's the stars who make it such fun, with an able Scarlett Johansson in relatively new comic territory." Urban Cinefile "Like The Devil Wears Prada, this film's kicks come from watching the foibles and quirks of the uber-rich through an outsider's eyes, but the genuine sadness on display in The Nanny Diaries saves this film from being just a Prada knock-off." BBC-movies Showing:
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