Release Date: 24 August 2007 (USA)

Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance

Actors: Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti, Chris Evans, Donna Murphy, Alicia Keys, Nicholas Art, Nathan Corddry, Cady Huffman, Brande Roderick, Nina Garbiras, Judith Roberts, Alison Wright, Heather Simms, Sakina Jaffrey

Directors: Shari Springer Berman

Country: USA

Plot: A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.

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The Nanny Diaries certainly has to be a feel good summer movie, it’s entertaining and sweet and a coming of age story as told through one characters point of view. The ever beautiful and attractive Scarlett Johansson stars as Annie Braddock a suburban New Jersey girl who just graduates college and she has dreams of becoming an anthropologist.

While the main focus of the movie seems to be on the evils of luxury and the importance of raising children, Annie’s sweet, lovable mother consistently nags Annie to enter the world of business and finance in pursuit of a "better" life.

The mother reminds Annie that she worked years of overtime, etc. as a nurse to give Annie the chance to go to a good school and work towards the high life.

She is also appalled to learn of Annie’s waste-of-time job raising a child.The film does have it’s saving graces. Johansson and Evans are both very charming in the film and the rest of the cast do a good job.

But what they succeeded in doing was establish a relationship between Annie and Grayer. Their relationship and could see how much they meant to each other. Their relationship was truly touching and believable.

Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical

Actors: John Travolta, Nikki Blonsky, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, Queen Latifah, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Marsden, Allison Janney, Jesse Weafer, Taylor Parks, J.P. Ferreri, Shane Simpson, Jerry Stiller

Directors: Adam Shankman

Plot: Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad (Nicole Blonsky) and her best friend Penny Pingleton (Amanda Bynes) audition to be on The Corny Collins Show and Tracy wins. But when scheming Amber Von Tussle (Brittany Snow) and her mother (Michelle Pfeiffer) plot to destroy Tracy, it turns to chaos. With Queen Latifah as hip DJ Motormouth Maybelle, John Travolta as Edna Turnblad, Christopher Walken as Wilbur Turnblad, James Marsden as show host Corny Collins, and Zac Efron as Amber/Tracy’s boyfriend, the popular and cute Link Larkin.

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Big girl Tracy Turnblad (newcomer Nikki Blonski) is in constant motion: she’s a Jell-O mold with a wave machine trapped inside. It’s 1962 and her dream is to mingle with the beautiful people by becoming a regular cast member on The Corny Collins Show, a daily televised dance party that features dangerous race music for clean cut white teenagers. Her corpulent mother Edna (Travolta) wants to shelter her baby from the evils of the world. At least Edna practices what she preaches. Mom hasn’t set foot out of the house since the 50s. Given a chance to audition for Corny (James Marsden), Tracy lands a spot on the show and over night becomes it biggest star…in more ways than one.

While in detention, Tracy mingles with minorities and it isn’t long before she’s championing racial equality and trying to integrate the bandstand.