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 The Nanny Diaries releases in theatres Friday, August 24th, 2007. The film shot in New York City from April to July of 2006. The Nanny Diaries, based on the New York Times bestseller, tells the story of Annie Braddock, a young woman, fresh out of college, from a working-class neighborhood in New Jersey. As a recent grad, Annie gets tremendous pressure from her nurse mother to find a respectable position in the business world. Through a serendipitous meeting, 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). Co-directors Shari Spring Berman and Robert Pulcini, who directed the critically acclaimed American Splendor, felt that it was important for this story to be told in the big apple. “I’m a native New Yorker,” Spring Berman said, “and I could tell that women who wrote the book were real New Yorkers – it wasn’t a fantasy from someone who lives someplace else. It was truthful, and a very interesting portrait of a subculture that I found fascinating.” Working with cinematographer Terry Stacey, Springer Berman and Pulcini sought to photograph New York with a heightened sense of reality, like an urban fairy tale. “I think Shari and Bob are trying to make this film a love letter to New York with all its eccentricities, wonderful locations, and amusing people,” said Linney. “There’s no place like New York.” Not all of the grandeur of New York City was found outside. “We scouted some pretty incredible apartments,” said Pulcini. “You don’t realize what’s behind some of the doors in Manhattan. I remember we saw one apartment that was so big that I lost all the people we were scouting with – just wandering around.” Most of the film’s interiors were shot on real locations all over New York, but production designer Mark Ricker created the X’s immense and opulent apartment at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn. The film stars Scarlett Johanssen, who shot In Good Company in 2004 in NYC, Laura Linney, who shot The Savages in 2007 and The Squid and the Whale in 2005 in NYC, Paul Giamatti who shot Donnie Brasco in NYC, and Chris Evans and Alicia Keyes. The film shot in: Raoul’s restaurant on Prince between Sullivan and Thompson Medical Arts Building – Bayside, Queens Oakland Gardens, Queens Hungarian Pastry shop on Amsterdam Avenue and 110th Street Columbia University Grand Central Station House of the Redeemer on 95th and Madison Museum of Natural History Russian Orthodox Synod on Park and 93rd Joanna’s Restaurant on 92nd between 5th and Madison Applebees in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn Kingsborough Community College Franklin Place at Franklin Street Sydney’s Playground on White Street and Broadway Hudson St. and West Houston Conservatory Waters in Central Park Peter Elliot Store on Madison Avenue Lexington Candy Stor on Lexington and 83rd The Met Bergdorf Goodman Weitz & Luxenburg Cedar Hill in Central Park And the Woman’s National Republican Club on 51st street between 5th and 6th To view the trailer, Click here! |  |
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