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Brittany Murphy and Dakota Fanning star in this charming romp about a young
woman and a young girl who are thrust together against the odds but ultimately
teach each other something about life and love. Murphy is Molly Gunn, a rock and
roll princess whose father was a famous music legend. She lives wildly off her
inheritance--until the man in charge of her money takes off with it. With
bankruptcy staring her in the face, she is forced to do something she never
dreamed of--get a job. So she becomes a nanny--for precocious Ray Schleine
(Fanning), an eight-year-old who acts more mature than she does but doesn’t have
much fun in life.
Boaz Yakin’s comedy is filmed throughout New York
City--including in Coney Island, Williamsburg, Henri Bendel’s, and Central
Park--and it takes advantage of that setting like few recent films. The streets
of the city are another character as Molly and Ray slowly begin to develop a
relationship that neither one ever dreamed would happen. The movie features
support from Heather Locklear as Ray’s very busy record executive mom, Donald
Faison as Molly’s party-loving music friend, and Jesse Spencer as Molly’s
musician boyfriend, who did all his own singing on the film and whose work
appears on the soundtrack album.
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