Cast:
Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Alicia Keys, Laura Linney, Paul
Giamatti,
Donna Murphy
Synopsis
The
Nanny Diaries 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 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 (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 explore her
identity as never before.