The Nanny Diaries Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Based on Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin's popular satirical novel, the film stars Scarlett Johansson as a working-class woman from New Jersey who becomes a nanny to a wealthy Manhattan family.

Plot

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Plot

"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.

Drama Teen

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in The Nanny Diaries.

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  Scarlett Johansson

  Jurassic World Rebirth, Project Artemis

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  Laura Linney

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  Paul Giamatti

  Downton Abbey 3, Win Win

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  Alicia Keys

  Smokin' Aces, The Secret Life of Bees

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  Chris Evans

  Red One, The Avengers: Age of Ultron

Crew Behind the Film

The The Nanny Diaries behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Shari Springer Berman last directed Ten Thousand Saints and Girl Most Likely. The film's writer Shari Springer Berman last wrote Ten Thousand Saints and The Extra Man.

Director

Shari Springer Berman
Robert Pulcini

Screenwriters

Shari Springer Berman
Robert Pulcini

Production Details

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Key Facts

• Based on the novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus.

Production Updates for The Nanny Diaries

Dec 2004

Completed

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