The Nanny Diaries

Synopsis: A 21-year-old New York University student becomes a nanny to a family on the Upper East Side who turns out to be the family from hell.The story of the journey of Annie Braddock, 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 and her precocious son Grayer, while attempting to avoid the formidable Mr. X. Life becomes even more complicated when Annie falls for a gorgeous Park Avenue Hottie, and she's forced to explore her identity as never before.

Review: A simple and sweet movie but too many similarities with The Devil Wears Prada in terms of plot. Instead of running errands for a fashion magazine editor, the main characters has to run errands for a housewife from hell this time. Predictable plot I mean if you've watched The Devil Wears Prada, the show talks about finding one's identity and what you would want to be in the future. The cinematography is interesting too whenever she introduces a new character in her life where you see them as though you're in a museum, love that effect and that red umbrella which kinds of take her away from her troubles and make her step forward. Food for thought for fresh graduates and people who are going to ORD soon. Actually the draw of the film for me is Scarlett Johansson, she's just damn gorgeous. Can see why Woody Allen loves her to be in his film. Man I would be the luckiest man in the world if I had her as my nanny haha! I would recommend this film if you are looking for a time in the cinemas over the weekends or to catching up with some old pals.