Article: FILM REVIEW: 'Nanny Diaries' fails to come to life

Anna Wiegenstein
University Wire
08-27-2007
(The Daily Iowan) (U-WIRE) IOWA CITY, Iowa -- At one moment in "The Nanny Diaries," our heroine asks a fairly sauced grandmother to keep an eye on a group of children. The elder lady, whose blood is bluer than the ocean in the background, gestures with her novel and says irritably, "I'm on the last chapter!"

The book: "The Devil Wears Prada."

It's a tiny detail, yes, but it may just be the most important moment in an otherwise blandly predictable chick-lit adaptation. "The Nanny Diaries," as is "Prada," is set in the mysterious world of fabulously moneyed New Yorkers, with a plot that is nigh on completely un-relatable to most of us. The ...

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