X Paul Giamatti makes a move on her. Annie finds out where the nanny cam is and vents her issues about Mr. Annie applies for a scholarship for anthropology and is going out with Harvard Hottie real name: Hayden. Annie and her mother settle their differences about Annie studying anthropology and her mother says that Annie has her own life and it's okay to make mistakes.
X real name: Alexandra writes a letter to Annie saying sorry, thank you for making her realize that she had to pay more attention to her son , that she's no longer married to Mr.
X and that she's spending more time with her son Grayer. Other mistake : There's a scene at the end of the movie where Annie is sitting looking through some graduate school brochures, and her boyfriend Hayden comes over and hands her a letter from the "5th Avenue Mom" she used to work for.
Had she been younger by a decade, Meryl Streep, who gave a stupendous performance as the shrill Anna Wintour-like magazine editor in that picture, was born to play the upscale matron-suffering wife in the new film, though Laura Linney does a good job, too. A college grad, Annie goes through an early identity crisis, asking herself Who Am I What Am I Supposed to Do Incidentally, in the book, the character's name is Nanny, and that's the way she is addressed in the movie by her spoiled and ruthless employers.
Fresh out of Columbia University, she gets tremendous pressure from her decent, hard-working, future-oriented single mother, Judy Broadway's Donna Murphy to find a respectable position in the business world, although Annie would prefer to trade in her blackberry for an anthropologist's field diary.
The movie unfolds as a personal journal, with daily entries. Through a serendipitous meeting in Central Park, Annie ends up in the elite and ritualistic culture of Manhattan's Upper East Side as remote as one can imagine from her suburban New Jersey upbringing. Annie quickly learns that life is not very rosy or happy on the other side of the fence, or rather tax bracket.
As nanny, she must cater to the every whim of Mrs. X Laura Linney and her precocious son Grayer, while attempting to avoid the formidable Mr.
X Paul Giamatti, overacting and basically miscast , an adulterous businessman, who in his first scene is heard but not seen. He's faceless, self-absorbed man. Life becomes even more complicated when Annie falls for a gorgeous Park Avenue Hottie Chris Evans, at his most handsome but bland , who lives in her building, and through interaction with him, is forced to re-examine her life and the direction in which it is headed.
The saga begins well with rather sharp observation of the nanny's unique milieu, a truly tribal African village, including details about the demographics of the femmes employed in such line of work, all women of color, of course. The scene where a dozen nannies, each from a different country and thus speaking English in a heavy accent, wait from the brats of Upper Eastside Manhattan to get out of school and take them home, is terrific and holds a lot of promise, which, alas, is not fulfilled in the film's ensuing acts.
Must love getting thrown up on, literally and figuratively, by everyone in his family. Must enjoy the delicious anticipation of ridiculously erratic pay. Mostly, must love being treated like fungus found growing out of employee's Hermes bag.
Those who take it personally need not apply. Nanny, who does take it all personally, perseveres despite the growing demands on her schedule and her heart.
An adulterous father who, we find out later, is a repeat offender brings added stress to the household, sending Mrs.
You might find yourself asking why the well-meaning Nanny continues to put up with the Xs' disregard for her life beyond their penthouse apartment.
Grounded and goodhearted, Nanny stays in an untenable situation much longer than most would because she cares deeply about the fate of her charge. She'll do any number of demeaning tasks requested of her by the lady of the house shop for lavender water, or create expensive gift bags, or pick up dry cleaning, or sit-in as surrogate mom at "parent-child" events because she sees the neglect of the Xs' son and wants to do something about it.
While the job description is relatively the same, Julie Andrews never experienced the atrocities survived by Nanny. If even half of what these former-nannies-turned-authors have written in their fictional debut nearly resembles the true trials and tribulations of those employed by the impossibly privileged to watch their pedigree progeny, then being a nanny has to be the most thankless job going.
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