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THE NANNY DIARIES, 2007
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Directed by Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Donna Murphy, Laura Linney, Alicia Keys
Review by Popcorn Boys

SYNOPSIS:

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. It's the story of the 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" (Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti). 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 and her precocious son Grayer, while attempting to avoid the formidable Mr. X. Life becomes even more complicated when Annie falls for a gorgeous Harvard Hottie (Chris Evans), and she's forced to explore her identity as never before.

Robert's Review

"The Nanny Diaries" is just a modern version of 'Marry Poppins," which basically takes the old story, completely shreds it and pieces it back together like paper mache, throws in some well-known actors and actresses to make it look a little better, and then completely falls flat at being entertaining. It has sparse comedic or interesting moments, but nothing worth sitting through the rest of it for. The entire movie comes off as though I was sitting in a classroom listening to some boring student read an essay about how being a nanny is really hard and challenging…. *yawn*. For all the good actors and actresses, I was very surprised to be so bored and uninterested while watching it. I've seen many of the cast's other movies and I really liked a lot of them. Oh well. Overall, save your money and just go rent the really old "Marry Poppins" movie instead.

All in all, I'd give this movie 2 Red Umbrellas (Out of 5). Re-watch value: NONE (I was really bored).

Brett's Review

I didn't know much about this movie other than it was based on a book, I didn't realize until I saw the movie that it was based on the movie "Mary Poppins". The umbrella scene got me thinking that we were in for a disaster, and when Scarlett Johansson Pops off with "supercalifrgilisticexpealidotious" I knew this movie was going to really bomb. So here we are after an hour and a half wasted on a really bad movie with no real plot other than to show that Hollywood has officially run out of ideas.

Overall Rating: 1 Nanny (Out of 5). Re-Watch Value: None (I'll watch Mary Poppins; it was a better movie anyway).