The Nannies Behind 'The Nanny Diaries' Embrace the Highly-Anticipated Film

The Nannies Behind 'The Nanny Diaries' Embrace the Highly-Anticipated Film

NEW YORK, Aug. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Emma McLaughlin and Nicki Kraus, the bestselling authors behind "The Nanny Diaries" have publicly endorsed the highly anticipated film adaptation of their expose of life as a nanny which opens nationwide tomorrow, Friday, August 24th and stars Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti, Chris Evans and Alicia Keys. "The Nanny Diaries" is a Weinstein Company presentation being distributed in US theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM).

Emma and Nicki said: "The Nanny Diaries is a hilarious unveiling of the comic, absurd and often unforgettable life of a nanny which we were lucky enough to survive. Scarlett Johansson and the rest of our dream cast brings Berman & Pulcini's exhilarating vision of Nanny's treacherous journey through the X's world of pomp and privilege to the big screen."

NATIONAL NANNY WEEK kicked off August 17th, in a nationwide celebration of the hardworking nannies, caretakers, teachers and/or mothers whose stories are told in the upcoming film and McLaughlin and Kraus' bestselling book. For the next seven days leading up to the release of the film "The Nanny Diaries," which opens Friday August 24th, nationwide companies including Victoria's Secret, Blockbuster, and Baskin Robbins, among others, will offer discounts and deals on various items or services. In addition to the nationwide companies, smaller companies including spas, salons and stores in New York City, Boston, Dallas, Washington D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and Seattle will give special discounts for NATIONAL NANNY WEEK. For detailed information and printable coupons, please visit WWW.NANNYWEEK.COM.

"The Nanny Diaries" tells the story of the emotional and often humorous journey of Annie Braddock (Scarlett 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 (Laura Linney) and her precocious son Grayer, while attempting to avoid the formidable Mr. X (Paul Giamatti). Life becomes even more complicated when Annie falls for a gorgeous Park Avenue Hottie (Chris Evans), and she's forced to explore her identity as never before.

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