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Article: `The Nanny Diaries'.(Movie review)
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- Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
- Article date:
- August 21, 2007
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Byline: Mary F. Pols
Adapted from the best-selling novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, "The Nanny Diaries" tells the story of a young college graduate named Annie (Scarlett Johansson) who chooses, in the absence of more inspiring career opportunities, to become a nanny for an Upper East Side family.
Needless to say, this is not what her mother Judy (Donna Murphy) had in mind when she bought Annie's graduation present, a badly cut business suit of indeterminate color _ green in some lights, gray in others _ and consistently gloomy. A salt-of-the-earth nurse, Judy envisioned that suit taking Annie right to the top of mysterious world of Wall ...