The Nanny Diaries

Scarlett Johansson is a nanny! She spends her summer after college caring for the offspring of the upper-crust WASP bluebloods Mr. and Mrs. X, who, contrary to what you might think, are not members of the Nation of Islam. But it's not one of those so-and-so-is-a-nanny movies like Jaime Pressly's brilliant "Poison Ivy: The New Seduction." (Pressly's mom was the nanny, and only for a few minutes, but still.) Instead, it's light PG-13 fare: the nanny is treated poorly by the parents, but she sticks around for the kid's sake. She also has a tepid romance bloom with someone known as Harvard Hottie; since the filmmakers didn't trust us to understand that, given his name, he went to Harvard, he also wears a Harvard shirt when he's out and about. At the end, we learn, get this, that the ultra-rich don't really care about their kids and they lead superficial lives, but deep inside, they're still human. And now that we've gotten this film out of our systems, we may watch "Poison Ivy: The New Seduction" again.