Nanny Diaries, The
“The Nanny Diaries” tells the story of the emotional and often humorous journey of Annie Braddock (Scarlett Johansson), a young woman from a working-class neighborhood in New Jersey, struggling to understand her place in the world. Fresh out of college, she gets tremendous pressure from her nurse mother to find a respectable position in the business world although Annie would prefer to trade in her blackberry for an anthropologist's field diary.
Through a serendipitous meeting, Annie ends up in the elite and ritualistic culture of Manhattan's Upper East Side -- as remote from Annie's suburban New Jersey upbringing as life in an Amazon tribal village. Choosing to duck out of real life, Annie accepts the position as a nanny for a wealthy family, referred to as simply "the X's."
She quickly learns that life is not very rosy on the other side of the tax bracket, as she must cater to the every whim of Mrs. X (Laura Linney) and her precocious son Grayer, while attempting to avoid the formidable Mr. X (Paul Giamatti). Life becomes even more complicated when Annie falls for a gorgeous neighbor of the X’s (Chris Evans) who she nicknames Harvard Hottie, and is forced to explore what she wants to do with her life.
Directed by
Shari Springer Berman
Robert Pulcini
Cast
Scarlett Johansson - Annie Braddock
Laura Linney - Mrs. X
Paul Giamatti - Mr. X
Chris Evans - Harvard Hottie
Donna Murphy - Judy
Alicia Keys - Lynette
Nicholas Art - Grayer
Nathan Corddry - Calvin
Production Co.
FilmColony
Produced by
Dany Wolf
Richard N. Gladstein
Studio
The Weinstein Company
Writer
Shari Springer Berman
Robert Pulcini
Music
Mark Suozzo
