The Nanny Diaries

It's a pleasant, fitfully amusing watch...

...en film, der kommer godt fra start, men som taber mere og mere af farten jo tættere vi kommer på rulleteksterne.

...the film belongs to Linney, whose caustic putdowns and status-seeking veneer barely hides her genuine hurt over her husband's philandering and her distant relationship to her own child.

Through the eyes of Nanny, we see the rules governing dress, fashion, business, entertainment and conspicuous consumption in the same world that was memorably X-rayed by Tom Wolfe in The Bonfire of the Vanities.