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The Devil Wears Down Her Nanny

“The Nanny Diaries,” a scattershot screen adaptation of Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus's 2002 satirical beach read, has one unassailable asset. As this exposé of the rich and miserable on the Upper East Side wobbles along uncertainly, it rests on the tense, squared shoulders of Laura Linney. Ms. Linney defies a screenplay that paints her character, Mrs. X, a Park Avenue socialite, as a monstrous control freak. She is a smart, flexible actress who invests her role, a composite of former employers of the novel's authors, with enough humanity to arouse some pity. [...]

di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (5659 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 24 agosto 2007