21-year-old Annie Braddock (Scarlett Johansson), has just graduated from Montclair State University. She has no
idea what or who she wants to be. One day, while sitting in the park, Annie
sees a young boy about to be hit by a vehicle. Annie saves him and meets the
boy's mother, who we meet as Mrs. X (Laura
Linney). When she introduces herself as "Annie", Mrs. X mistakes
her words for "Nanny" and hires her to look after Grayer (Nicholas
Art), the boy she saved (Mrs. X also continues to call her
"Nanny" instead of "Annie" throughout the film). Annie lies
to her mother about taking a job at a bank and, in reality, moves in with the
X's to be the nanny for Grayer.
Life with the incredibly privileged X's is not what she
thought it would be, and her life is complicated further when she falls for
"Harvard Hottie" (Chris Evans), who lives in the building.
Interspersed with her life as the X's nanny are her interactions with
"Harvard Hottie" as well as her longtime friend Lynette (Alicia
Keys). She also continues to keep her mother in the dark about her real
job, giving her regular but false progress reports about her job. Further
complications arise when her Mom decides to visit her, forcing Annie to pretend
Lynette and her roommate are a couple and that their apartment is Annie's
apartment. Her mother finds out the truth when Annie desperately calls her for
help during a scary moment when Grayer becomes severely ill.
After a rough start, Annie eventually bonds with Grayer and
discovers that he is actually a sweet and loving child who is neglected by both
his parents. Parallel to this, Annie begins to also notice that Grayer is not
the only one being neglected: Mrs. X is as well, with Mr. X (Paul
Giamatti) constantly being cruel to her and committing subtly obvious
adultery. Mrs. X makes numerous attempts to make her husband love her,
including telling him she is pregnant with their second child. Annie soon
realizes that Mrs. X's own cruel treatment of her is due to Mrs. X's growing
frustrations from her dysfunctional marriage.
Things take a turn for the worse during a family trip with
the X's to Nantucket. She overhears Mrs. X telling a friend during a party that
she has installed a 'nanny cam' at their home in the city and plans to fire
Annie after viewing footage showing Annie lovingly tending to Grayer (with Mrs.
X grossly exaggerating her findings from the 'nanny cam'), Mr. X attempts to
seduce Annie by inappropriately grabbing her just as Mrs. X enters the kitchen,
resulting in Annie getting fired and sent back to the city with her final
payment ... of just $40 (along with a puppy Mr. X had given Grayer when they
arrived in the Hamptons but foisted off on her as she was leaving). Flying into
a rage, she looks for and finds the 'nanny cam' in the X's house and records
her feelings toward the X's. Mrs. X brings the tape to the school meeting for
the Upper East Side mothers. Thinking that the tape will show Annie feeding
Grayer peanut butter and jelly, she requests the coordinator to play it for
everyone to see. All other parents in the room hear as Annie reveals the real relationship
between the X's, in the process making Mrs. X come to terms with her own
reality and false happiness.
Annie continues to date "Harvard Hottie", whose
real name is revealed to be Hayden. She is temporarily living with Lynette and
her roommate, and pursuing her growing interest in anthropology, much of which
she learned through her time as the X's nanny.
A few months later, Hayden hands her a letter from Mrs. X.
Written in the letter is an apology and news about how Mrs. X left Mr. X (and
that her second pregnancy was a false one that Mrs. X invented to keep Mr. X
interested in her), is raising Grayer alone and making stronger attempts to
bond with him (and successfully doing so), and Grayer's overall improvement.
She expresses her gratitude to Annie for waking her up and changing her life.
Also in the letter, Mrs. X addresses Annie for the first time by her real name
(instead of Nanny), and signs the letter with her own first name, Alexandra
(instead of Mrs. X).
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