The Nanny Diaries
A college student, Annie Braddock, with a working-class background takes a nanny job with an affluent but highly dysfunctional Manhattan couple. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.
8 September 1977, Weymouth, Massachusetts, USA
30 November 1934
5 December 1963, New Jersey, USA
17 September 1963, Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
9 September 1964, New York City, New York, USA
25 February 1970, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
7 March 1959, Corona, New York, USA
15 November 1963, New York City, New York, USA
4 June 1961, San Diego, California, USA
2 February 1965, Santa Barbara, California, USA
13 June 1974, Novato, California, USA
24 August 1942, Missouri, USA
14 April 1976, London, England, UK
13 June 1981, Boston, Massachusetts, 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.
August 27, 2007
The Nanny Diaries, despite many bright moments and a superior level of craftsmanship, is now a flabby urban fairy tale.
August 24, 2007
A clever, satiric novel turned dull-witted movie.
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.
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.
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 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, 2009
For viewers who thought The Devil Wears Prada was way too hard-hitting
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.
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.
March 06, 2008
...can't help but come off as something of a disappointment...
August 25, 2007
This is the sort of ho-hum production that will likely seem less disappointing on a smaller screen.
