The Nanny Diaries (2007) 8/10

Starring : Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Alicia Keys, Chris Evans, Paul Giamatti, Nicholas Reese Art, Donna Murphy
Director : Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
Running Time : 105 mins

Annie Braddock (Johansson) decides to forgo her future career by taking on a job as a nanny as part of an anthropological study. She soon realises that she's taken on a lot more than she can chew when she finds herself faced with a woman she calls Mrs X (Linney) who cares very little for her child's welfare, and her husband (Giamatti) who cares more about money and sleeping around than he does for either his wife or his son.

This was a nice little movie with a moral message to give, though without going overboard and trying to ram it down your throat. Johansson is lovely as ever and very endearing as the nanny, with Linney playing the socialite to the hilt opposite her marvellously slimey husband Giamatti. Definitely worth going to see, and not just for Johansson.

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