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The Nanny Diaries

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Village Vidiot

Ok, so this wasn’t my first choice of a film for the evening. My daughter wanted to see it and we wanted to watch something with her, hence the selection Still, it could have been much worse than this bitter-sweet morality tale/comedy about a recent college grad (Annie, Scarlett Johanson) with no sense of what she wants to do who falls into a NYC job as a nanny to a forgotten child of the Upper East side Mr and Mrs X (Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney) who are the essence of spoiled self-absorption. Well-meaning Linney and (especially) Giamatti add the proper tone of nasty arrogant entitlement and self-absorption. The love story with a thoughtful rich boy in the building (Chris Evans as Harvard Hottie) is mostly irrelevant but that’s ok. It mattered more that we watched it together and it was perfectly acceptable as something to watch with my daughter

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