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The Nanny Diaries
Searching for a job to set up her professional life, a young beautiful and smart girl, accepts the job of a nanny for a rich family, the thing that inspires her life.
5 February 1964, New York City, New York, USA
14 April 1976, London, England, UK
1 February 1930, Chicago, Illinois, USA
25 January 1981, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
13 January 1999, Connecticut, USA
2 February 1965, Santa Barbara, California, USA
5 December 1963, New Jersey, USA
30 July 1968, Abington, Pennsylvania, USA
30 April 1968, Houston, Texas, USA
22 November 1984, New York City, New York, USA
12 October 1979, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
9 September 1964, New York City, New York, USA
August 27, 2008
Stalled out in mediocre-land, and choices like the narration, the overbearingly cutesy art direction and costume design, and even preserving the convention of calling them Mr. and Mrs. X pulled you out of the story and dragged it down.
February 28, 2008
By painting with too broad a brush, Nanny gets laughs at the expense of any sort of deeper commentary the filmmakers were obviously hoping to achieve.
March 06, 2008
...can't help but come off as something of a disappointment...
February 29, 2016
It could have been much stronger if it were just a tinge more wicked instead of being primitively moralist right at the end in the name of maternal love -- I mean, I still have mommy issues.
May 01, 2008
Here's hoping that the very talented [Shari] Springer [Berman] and [Robert] Pulcini get a crack at a script that's worthy of their talents for their third time at bat.
August 25, 2007
This is the sort of ho-hum production that will likely seem less disappointing on a smaller screen.
August 27, 2009
For viewers who thought The Devil Wears Prada was way too hard-hitting
October 10, 2007
The conclusion is desperately trite, but Linney's performance helps this comedy - based on a novel by two nannies, take note - feel like a credible peek behind very expensive curtains.
August 24, 2007
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.
August 24, 2007
A clever, satiric novel turned dull-witted movie.
August 25, 2007
With [Linney], the film receives some badly needed dimension to its thin satire, not to mention the lion's share of the laughs.
August 27, 2007
The Nanny Diaries, despite many bright moments and a superior level of craftsmanship, is now a flabby urban fairy tale.
