Upon saving the life of a young boy, a young beautiful girl, who after graduation searches for a job, works as a nanny for a rich family, where she helps the boy to cope with his dysfunctional family.
It could have been much stronger if it were just a tinge more wicked instead of being primitively moralist right at the end in the name of maternal love -- I mean, I still have mommy issues.
Here's hoping that the very talented [Shari] Springer [Berman] and [Robert] Pulcini get a crack at a script that's worthy of their talents for their third time at bat.
Stalled out in mediocre-land, and choices like the narration, the overbearingly cutesy art direction and costume design, and even preserving the convention of calling them Mr. and Mrs. X pulled you out of the story and dragged it down.
Whatever its faults are, The Nanny Diaries is hardly the disaster that the gossipmongers -- including, perhaps, even the studio that made it -- want us to believe.
The conclusion is desperately trite, but Linney's performance helps this comedy - based on a novel by two nannies, take note - feel like a credible peek behind very expensive curtains.
