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Article: The Nanny Diaries
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- The Stranger
- Article date:
- August 23, 2007
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The Nanny Diaries
dir. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
Like the ridiculously successful The Devil Wcocs Pruda, the chick flick The Nanny Diaries assumes, first, that you want to see how the upper sliver of society lives, and second, that you hunger to see its corrupt morals torn to shreds. What looks like explosive class hatred turns, inevitably, into a pathetic defense of bourgeois values. Big surprise, I know. But The Nanny Diai'iex is from the filmmakers of the craggy American Splendor, it stars Scarlett Johansson and Laura Linney. I had hoped for something interesting.
Johansson plays the luscious Annie Braddock, a recent college grad from New Jersey who's trying to avoid ...