Alicia Keys, Chris Evans, Donna Murphy
A 21-year-old New York University student becomes a nanny to a family on the Upper East Side who turns out to be the family from hell.The story of the journey of Annie Braddock, a young woman from a w...( read more
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Directed by: Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman
Release Date: August 24, 2007
DVD Release Date: December 4, 2007
Stats: 11,010 reviews
Johansson doesn't have plenty to do here except to become a very frustrated nanny who teaches her charge how to enjoy life and break unreasonable rules, something every child would definitely want to do given the innate rebellious streak within, especially from a spoiled brat. Th...( read more)
The first thing you will say when watching this is that "I didn't know Paul Giamatti is in this". An aspiring executive/anthropologist fresh out of NYU decides to take some time off and become a nanny, documenting the entire situation for research purposes, but begins to feel for...( read more)
"In Africa they have the saying, it takes a village to raise a child. But for the tribe of the upper-eastside of Manhattan, it takes just one person. The nanny."
Given the dual income generating parents these days, most children are brought up by domestic help. They rare...( read more)
This was really cute. It has a great, unique storyline and a really satisfying ending. I liked it.
Scarlett Johansson plays nanny to a horrible couple (the X'es) with a cute kid. Eventually she leaves, but not before explaining the error of Mrs. X's ways who reforms and lives happily ever after.
There is a bit of kitsch in this movie!
Not as exciting as I was expecting. The storyline was a little bland but it had some funny moments. Chris Evans as Harvard Hottie and Laura Linney as Mrs X were great.
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. full review
A film that is even more lightweight and clichéd than the fluff that was the best-selling book. full review
There's something painful about watching Scarlett Johansson, who looks as if she never had an indecisive moment in her life, struggle to seem ineffectual. full review
Too false to be funny, too pat to be real. full review
The movie itself is sort of bland and obvious and comfortable. full review
Satire should be knife-sharp and whip-smart, and The Nanny Diaries never is. full review
The unfaithful film adaptation so undermines the novel's spiky social satire that it constitutes some kind of aesthetic crime. full review
The Nanny Diaries -- though basically a light entertainment -- breaks movie culture's unspoken taboo against class consciousness. full review
The movie shouldn't open in the Museum of Natural History but the Museum of the Moving Image -- with a display of chick-flick clichés through the ages. full review
Such a movie which is again too boring to watch. I stopped watching it after 15 minutes, just because (in my opinion) it was so stupid. One of Scarlett's worse roles.
If you take the following films "Devil Wears Prada" and "Uptown Girls" they are far superior to this movie. I didn't hate this film but it def could have been better and carefully thought out as being a movie. In the fist scene I just wanted to fall asleep because it was very slow. It felt like a made for t.v. movie you would happen to catch on lifetime. Having seen just recently "The Other Boleyn Girl" I thought Johansson would have done better acting in this. I just found her way over acting and too comical. Maybe they should have had Anne Hathaway?? I also was surprised with "Alicia Keys" having a small role in this. She still didn't make this movie worth watching. The little boy though was a cute kid actor and of course "Laura Linney" plays a rich bitch very well but they could have had "Meryl Streep" do it justice. "Paul Giamattii" who has been in a lot of flopped films in the past can add this one to his list. "Chris Evans is getting better at his acting in this film.
1 1/2 star
i liked the story.. it really depicts the reality of being raised by a nanny..
loved the book! the movie was much different. It was cute and it was funny, but not as good as the book!
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