- Family, Adventure, Crime, Mystery
- 99 min
- PG
Small town girl. Big time adventure.
Intrepid teenage private eye Nancy Drew heads to Tinseltown with her father to investigate the unsolved murder of a movie star in this old-fashioned whodunit based on Carolyn Keene's popular series of books for young adults. But can the small-town girl cut through the Hollywood hype to solve the case?
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Classical in form, resolved, unpretentious and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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- Kamuraion TMDB · Aug 20207/10
Really good watch, would watch again, and can recommend. While I don't enjoy the aspect of shoving an addiction (actually compulsion) story into a Nancy Drew story (as she has to stop sleuthing), and I don't enjoy the relocation aspect of a world they built so well so quickly, this movie has far more benefits than drawbacks. Once we get past the awkward "lying to your parents" aspect of the story that usually gets attributed to drugs and alcohol, the actual "sleuthing" is really fun and present in a charming and light-hearted way. The mystery itself is actually complex enough to keep you interested throughout the movie, and the characters are fun, if eccentric. Having a "world's clash" aspect to the story seemed unnecessary, and that's the only real hang up this movie had. Firstly the movie was supposed to be the opening of a potential franchise to revitalize the Nancy Drew brand, but instead of giving it a strong opening movie, they jumped right in as if there were already 3 movies and they had already jumped the shark a second time. I had several young people ask me if "Nancy Drew was a thing?". Because it was mistreated in the writing process, what should have been a great movie
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Cast
- Emma RobertsNancy Drew
- Max ThieriotNed Nickerson
- Josh FlitterCorky Veinshtein
- Rachael Leigh CookJane Brighton
- Kay PanabakerGeorgie
- Tate DonovanCarson Drew
- Marshall BellJohn Leshing
- Daniella MonetInga Veinshtein
- Kelly VitzTrish
- Bruce WillisBruce (uncredited)
Crew
- Andrew FlemingDirector
- Tiffany PaulsenScreenplay
- Andrew FlemingScreenplay
- Edward StratemeyerNovel
- Alexander GruszynskiDirector of Photography
- Ralph SallOriginal Music Composer
- Jeff FreemanEditor
- Jerry WeintraubProducer
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