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Five Favorite Films About Domestics
Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus wrote the #1 New York Times Bestselling novel, The Nanny Diaries, which was recently released on the big screen by the Weinstein Company. In addition to writing for film they are currently adapting their second New York Times Bestseller, Citizen Girl, for television. Their most recent novel, Dedication, about a woman whose high school boyfriend becomes a pop superstar world famous for songs about her, will be out this summer in paperback.
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The Nanny Diaries
American Splendor team, Sheri Berman and Robert Pulcini, blessed our novel with their keen Manhattan eye and biting wit. Scarlett Johansson does a pitch perfect 'you want me to what?' And Laura Linney taps into all the shades of humanity lurking under her character's botoxed facade.
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Corrina, Corrina
A quietly nuanced Whoopi Goldberg plays the housekeeper hired by widower Ray Liotta to look after his bereaved daughter Molly. Actually, as tends to happen in the nanny world, he hires her to take care of his house and this happens to come with full time child care responsibilities. The film captures the small, poignant moments that make up the tentative dance of trust between child and caregiver.
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The Others
Alejandro Amenabar's riveting psychological/supernatural thriller in which the servants perform the ultimate duty of sheparding a spectacularly unraveling Nicole Kidman into the afterlife.
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The Remains of the Day
The agony and the longing and the lovely starched linens.
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The Sound of Music
The agony and the longing and the lovely starched linens as romper sets.
The Nanny Diaries
Photo: The Weinstein Company