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Article: 'Nanny Diaries' fails to do the job as a social satire
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- Oakland Tribune
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- August 24, 2007
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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 to the top of the mysterious
world of Wall Street, far out of reach of all the chores and
indignities of ...