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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