The Nanny Diaries

Set in Manhattan and Starring Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation), Laura Linney, Alicia Keys, and Chris Evans (The Fantastic Four); The Nanny Diaries (released to UK cinemas on 12 October 2007) tells the story of the emotional and often humorous journey of Annie Braddock (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 mother to find a respectable position in the business world although Annie would prefer to trade in her blackbery 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 (Linney) and her precocious son Grayer, while attempting to avoid the formidable Mr. X (Giamatti). Life becomes even more complicated when Annie falls for a gorgeous Park Avenue Hottie (Evans), and she’s forced to re-examine her life and the direction in which it is headed.

The Nanny Diaries, presented by The Weinstein Company and released by Paramount Pictures UK is written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini.

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