i love the book the nanny diary and i lose myself in it and the story of a student take care of a 5th avenue family son and all the mishap that happen be truly a delight to read . so when i hear about a movie adaptation i couldn not have be happy . when they start announce the cast i be pretty pleased with the choice and be a big scarlett johansson fan i know she could pull if off . then the movie come out and it suffer from bad review and low ticket sale and so my hope that the movie would be as good a the book be dampen and but i be still interested in it . well and i finally watch it and i feel so disappointed in this film . the cast be all great and they all do an adequate job . i like scarlett johansson a the lead . the real problem of this movie be that it really stray from the book . i have no problem when film adaptation of book be do differently and if i enjoy the book i might enjoy the movie as well no matter how much the film be change and as long a those change be positives one . in this movie the change be not positive . it try to be quirky and funny and really bomb in the humor . and it source material be both quirky and funny and all the change they make really make the humor feel force . that might the problem with this film and it try to hard to be funny and it just bombs . the magic of the book just do not translate into the film . what make the book good isn not present here and it a shame because it be a really fun book to read and this be a really boring movie to watch . the change in storyline weren not what bother me so much and but the fact that they take something original and turn it into something generic . the film do have it save grace . johansson and evans be both very charming in the film and the rest of the cast do a good job . but what they succeed in do and at least for me and be establish a relationship between annie and grayer . i really buy their relationship and could see how much they mean to each other . their relationship be truly touching and believable . unlike the book and which leave thing pretty unresolved and maybe that give it a touch or realism and this film give u the perfect happy end and be the bad guy be reform and our heroine have find what she be look for . i do not hate the movie and it fine and it just drag a little . the book be just great and i be hop that it film adaptation would live up to it and but it do not . it sad to see that something with so much potential be ruin by try to make it commercial and what end up happen be that the ruin a great opportunity . don not let this movie fool you and it be nothing like the book . and though i can not recommend this movie i do recommend the book to anyone .