Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B–" on an A+ to F scale. The website's critics consensus reads: The Nanny Diaries ' miscast lead and unrealistic, one-dimensional characters make this class satire far less effective than it should've been." According to Metacritic, which calculated a weighted average score of 46 out of 100 based on 33 critics, the film received "mixed or average reviews". On Rotten Tomatoes, 34% of 132 critics gave the film positive review, with an average rating of 5/10. Scarlett Johansson as Annie "Nanny" Braddock.X addresses Annie for the first time by her real name (instead of Nanny), and signs the letter with her own first name, Alexandra (instead of Mrs.
She expresses her gratitude to Annie for waking her up and changing her life. X interested in her), is raising Grayer alone and making stronger attempts to bond with him (and successfully doing so), and Grayer's overall improvement. X (and that her second pregnancy was a false one that Mrs. Written in the letter is an apology and news about how Mrs. She is temporarily living with Lynette and her roommate, and pursuing her growing interest in anthropology, much of which she learned through her time as the Xs' nanny.Ī few months later, Hayden hands her a letter from Mrs. X come to terms with her own reality and false happiness.Īnnie continues to date "Harvard Hottie", whose real name is revealed to be Hayden. All other parents in the room hear as Annie reveals the real relationship between the Xs, in the process making Mrs. Thinking that the tape will show Annie feeding Grayer peanut butter and jelly straight from a jar, she requests the coordinator to play it for everyone to see. X brings the tape to the school meeting for the Upper East Side mothers. X had given Grayer when they arrived in Nantucket but foisted off on her as she was leaving.įlying into a rage, she looks for and finds the " nanny cam" in the X's house and records her feelings toward the Xs. She unreasonably fires Annie and sends her back to the city with her final payment of just $40-along with a puppy Mr. X grossly exaggerating her findings from the "nanny cam").
X telling a friend during a party that she has installed a "nanny cam" at their home in the city and plans to fire Annie after viewing footage showing Annie lovingly tending to Grayer (with Mrs. Things take a turn for the worse during a family trip with the X's to Nantucket. X's growing frustrations from her dysfunctional marriage. X's own cruel treatment of her is due to Mrs. X makes numerous attempts to make her husband love her, including lying to him about being pregnant with their second child. X ( Paul Giamatti) constantly being cruel to her and committing subtly obvious adultery. Parallel to this, Annie begins to also notice that Grayer is not the only one being neglected: Mrs.
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Her mother finds out the truth when Grayer becomes severely ill, and Annie desperately calls her for help.Īfter a rough start, Annie eventually bonds with Grayer, whom she addresses by his preferred code name, "Grover", and discovers that he is actually a sweet and loving child who is neglected by both his parents, which explains his uncontrollable behavior. Further complications arise when her mother decides to visit her, forcing Annie to pretend Lynette ( Alicia Keys) and her roommate are a couple and that their apartment is Annie's apartment. She continues to keep her mother ( Donna Murphy) in the dark about her real job, giving her regular but false progress reports. Interspersed with her life as the Xs nanny are her interactions with "Harvard Hottie" as well as her longtime friend Lynette. Life with the incredibly privileged Xs is not what she thought it would be, and her life is complicated further when she falls for "Harvard Hottie" ( Chris Evans), who lives in the building. Annie lies to her mother about taking a job at a bank and, in reality, moves into the Xs' apartment to be the nanny for Grayer. X also continues to call her "Nanny" instead of "Annie" throughout the film). X mistakes her words for "Nanny" and hires her to look after Grayer, the boy she saved (Mrs. When she introduces herself as "Annie", Mrs. Annie saves him and meets the boy's mother, who we meet as Mrs. One day, while sitting in the park, Annie sees a young boy ( Nicholas Art as Greyer) about to be hit by a vehicle. She has no idea what or who she wants to be. Twenty-one-year-old Annie Braddock ( Scarlett Johansson) has just graduated from Montclair State University.