![]() ![]() Originally scheduled by the Weinstein Company for spring release, “Nanny Diaries” was then pushed back to early fall (September 7), but then moved back to August 24, presumably due to potential competition from the Russell Crowe-Christian Bale Western vehicle, the remake “3:10 to Yuma,” New Line's ultra-violent and pleasurably campy Clive Owen starrer, “Shoot 'Em Up,” and other films. End result is a sharply uneven work that never quite finds the right tone to depict its distinctive Park Avenue milieu, which in the book is treated as an exotic and esoteric site for anthropological fieldwork. For commercial reasons, Springer Berman and Pulcini might have been subjected to pressures to soften the book's more offbeat and darker notes. Likely to divide film critics, this quintessentially New York serio-comedy is a compromised rendition of the 2002 satirical novel of the same title, published to critical acclaim, blockbuster sales, and even notoriety. The gifted writer-directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, who created the original and edgy indie “American Splendor,” a highlight of the 2003 season, make a rough, not entirely successful transition to the big-budget, star-driven movie world with their follow-up “The Nanny Diaries.”
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