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- Release date: August 24, 2007
- DVD release date: December 4, 2007
- MPAA rating: PG-13
- Running time: 106 minutes
- Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Alicia Keys, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti, and Chris Evans
- Director: Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
- Writers: Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
- Studio: The Weinstein Company
- Budget: $20 million
- Box office: $25,847,144
- Rotten Tomatoes freshness rating: 34%
- Metacritic: 46 out of 100
- Metacritic users: 6.3 out of 10
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The Nanny Diaries is a comedy drama film based on the award winning novel The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. Scarlett Johansson stars as the nanny in charge of one little boy. She tries to maintain her sanity while negotiating the surreal world of privileged Upper East Side Manhattan.
Critics were unimpressed with the film, comparing it unfavorable with the similarly themed The Devil Wears Prada. It earned just a 34% freshness rating on the website Rotten Tomatoes and only 46 out of 100 on the review aggregator Metacritic.
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The Nanny Diaries Review Excerpts
- "...this new comedy rarely rises above standard sitcom fare..." — Variety
- ""The Nanny Diaries" is so tightly constructed of cliches, stereotypes and chick-lit tropes that it's inert; no fresh air can blow in." — The Wall Street Journal
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The Nanny Diaries Reviews Questions
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Would you rather hire a nanny ... or be a nanny? 2 AnswersI would rather be a nanny than hire one. No one does the job as good as me read more -
Where can I buy a copy of the Jade Goody Diary when it comes out? 1 AnswerAnywhere and Everywhere. The book will be titled "Forever In My Heart." There is already a deal with HarperCollins. They are a major publisher. So, my guess is... read more -
Regarding Casey Anthony- Where has she been working that she needed a nanny and who watched her (more) 3 AnswersWell, my own thoughts would be that she was either a) doing something illegal in which she didn't want to give a legit name (i.e. illegal alien watching the chi... read more
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The Nanny Diaries Reviews (Good)
- Time: The Nanny Diaries Review
- "[I]n the end The Nanny Diaries is an entertaining study of how class warfare — honest working girl vs. the arrivistes — works out in a society that likes to pretend that such warfare is a thing of the past. It isn't, of course, and the movie is tender enough, tough enough and wise enough finally to broker a satisfying truce between the combatants."
- Miami Herald: The Nanny Diaries Review
- "Profundity, then, is not the movie's strong suit. But for all its pop-song philosophizing, this adaptation of the novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus is still a late-summer delight, a sleek, handsomely made bauble buoyed by a cast much stronger than the flimsy material deserves."
- The Onion (AV Club): The Nanny Diaries Review
- "Without her presence as a snooty Upper East Side mother in The Nanny Diaries—a crisp, though conventional, adaptation of Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus' popular novel—the film might have been little more than a collection of broad comic stereotypes and family-values sentiment. But with her, the film receives some badly needed dimension to its thin satire, not to mention the lion's share of the laughs."
- "[T]his 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."
- Shadows on the Wall: The Nanny Diaries Review
- "Berman and Pulcini are clever enough filmmakers to keep things visually lively and to make sure the script bounces along with energy and pace."
The Nanny Diaries Reviews (Bad)
- The Boston Globe: The Nanny Diaries Review
- "You could make sushi with the women in The Nanny Diaries, though. The movie's banal fantasies badly chafe any anthropological consideration of what a girl should do with her career. This isn't life. It's Lifetime."
- eFilmCritic.com: The Nanny Diaries Reviews
- "The most disappointing aspect about The Nanny Diaries, however, is that it was written and directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini as the follow-up to their wonderful 2003 debut American Splendor, a film as brave, quirky, funny, wonderfully acted and resoundingly human as you could possibly want."
- The Hollywood Reporter: The Nanny Diaries Review
- "There's nothing to criticize in this performance, but there's nothing to get excited about, either. It's solid though uninspired work."
- NY Daily News: The Nanny Diaries Review
- "Despite some clever early fantasy scenes, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's adaptation of best seller The Nanny Diaries won't make Bridget Jones give up her writing."
- Washington Post: The Nanny Diaries Review
- "Somehow the movie doesn't send you out on the high you expect...You want to see Armageddon visited upon the transgressor. That's the transaction that must close the film. But the film doesn't quite deliver...It ends not with a bang but with a mutter."
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