Nancy Drew (2007 film)

Nancy Drew
Promotional movie poster for the film Directed by Andrew FlemingProduced by Cherylanne Martin
Jerry Weintraub
Susan Ekins (executive)
Mark Vahradian (executive)
Ben Waisbren(executive) Written by Teal Valentino
Tiffany PaulsenStarring Emma Roberts
Josh Flitter
Max ThieriotDistributed by Warner Bros.Release date(s) United States:
June 15, 2007
Australia:
June 28, 2007
United Kingdom:
19 October 2007Running time 99 min. Country United StatesLanguage EnglishBudget $20,000,000 Official website Allmovie profile IMDb profile

Nancy Drew is a feature film released on June 15, 2007 in the U.S., loosely based on the popular series of mystery novels about the titular teen detective. It stars Emma Roberts as Nancy Drew, Kay Panabaker as George, Amy Bruckner as Bess Marvin, and Max Thieriot as Ned. The film is rated PG for mild violence, thematic elements and brief language. Set in Los Angeles, it was directed by Andrew Fleming.

Critics' reaction to it was mixed, with the film scoring a 48% at Rotten Tomatoes. One reviewer felt that it "caters to an exclusive club whose members are prone to overlook its numerous faults"[1] and it was mocked in The New Yorker.[2] The critics who did like it generally thought it was refreshing.[3][4]

1 Plot
2 DVD Release
3 Background and production
4 Cast
5 Reception
6 Bloopers
7 Soundtrack
8 Notes and references
9 External links

Plot

Nancy Drew (Emma Roberts) and her father (Tate Donovan) move from River Heights for a few months and rent a house in Los Angeles which Nancy herself has chosen, due to it being the home of a murdered movie star, Dehlia Draycott (Laura Harring). Draycott died mysteriously following an extended disappearance. which was featured in the tabloids. Despite the mystery, Nancy's father has forbidden her from further sleuthing and encourages her to focus on high school and being normal.

Due to her talent, intelligence and straight forward, honest personality, Nancy cannot fit in at school, so she reverts to solving mysteries. She traces Dehlia Draycott's disappearance to having had a child and giving it up for adoption in privacy. She learns that Jane Brighton (Rachael Leigh Cook), a single mother, is Draycott's true daughter and beneficiary of a will that has since disappeared. She receives a threatening phone call telling her to get off the case, but contacts her father's business associate, Dashiel Biedermeyer (Barry Bostwick), who is the lawyer of the Draycott estate.

Meanwhile, Nancy's friend, Ned, shows up in town, along with Nancy's blue car, saying he's visiting for a while. Inga and Trish, two girls who think they are fashion gurus, find Ned "cute". Inga starts to stalk Ned everywhere and tries flirting with him. Inga is also Corky's sister. Corky is one of Nancy's new friends who also has a crush on her, and has some tense moments with Ned, since it is quite obvious that Ned has a crush on Nancy. With Inga and Trish, they go to a restaurant, and as they walk out, Nancy finds a bomb in her car. She throws it into a sewer, and it explodes as she leaves, and Ned rushes to her side.

Jane arrives on Nancy's doorstep to tell her that her child has been taken away from her. She knows that none of the charges of misconduct are true, and reveals that, after Nancy left, a man showed up on her doorstep to threaten her. Nancy demands that her father take up Jane's case; he agrees, and Jane stays with them. While they are watching a movie Dehlia Draycott starred in, Nancy realizes that she must have hidden her revised will in a prop from one of her movies. As soon as she tracks down its location and recovers the will, she is kidnapped by the villain's henchmen, who have tracked her using her cell phone's GPS, which was given from "her father", but was actually given from the henchmen.

Nancy soon escapes and recovers the will, but gets into a car crash and must go to the emergency room. Her father, along with Biedermeyer, arrives and demands to know what is going on. She admits she has been sleuthing and explains that she has found Draycott's true will. Biedermeyer offers them a ride home so he can sign a business deal with Carson Drew. Nancy realizes that he is the one who was disinherited by Dehlia's will, that he is "Z", who was Dehlia Draycott's supposed love, and jumps from the car. Biedermeyer catches her and threatens to "squeeze it out of her", but Nancy first asks him why he killed Dehlia. Biedermeyer answers back saying that Dehlia went a bit crazy after her reappearance. He also said that he was not the father of Jane, it was Leshing. Biedermeyer then demands the will. "It's right here," Nancy says, and then kicks him and runs off. Biedermeyer and his henchmen corner her and are about to kill her when the groundskeeper, Leshing (Marshall Bell), knocks them unconscious. The will is restored to its rightful owner. Jane is able to get back her daughter and converts the Draycott mansion into a home for single mothers, and the Drews return to River Heights. Back at River Heights, Nancy is sad that the mystery is over, though she denies it. Ned is found outside, applying a convertible top to the blue car. The two share a special moment and he kisses her. Then her father comes outside with the phone, telling Nancy it's "long-distance from Scotland. Something about the Loch-Ness Monster and missing diamonds." Nancy smiles ecstatically and runs to get the phone, while Ned rolls his eyes and shakes his head.

DVD Release

Nancy Drew was released on DVD March 11, 2008. Extras were scheduled to include a Nancy Drew: Kids at Work featurette, five mini featurettes (Our Ipod Ideology, Nancy Drew’s Detective Kit, Behind the Scene, Day on the Set, and Emma’s Last Day), and a "Pretty Much Amazing" music video by Joanna.

Background and production

Filming was done in 2006. At this point in time, Emma Roberts did not have her driver's license and was unable to drive the roadster for the car chase scenes herself. The movie was filmed at South Pasadena, California, Los Angeles, Santa Clarita, California, Long Beach, California, and Burbank, California.[5]

Cast

Emma Roberts as Nancy Drew
Josh Flitter as Corky
Max Thieriot as Ned Nickerson
Rachael Leigh Cook as Jane Brighton
Tate Donovan as Carson Drew
Amy Bruckner as Bess Marvin
Kay Panabaker as Georgia Fayne
Daniella Monet as Inga
Kelly Vitz as Trish
David Doty as Father Murphy
Caroline Aaron as Barbara Barbara
Marshall Bell as Leshing
Cliff Bemis as Chief McGinnis
Adam Clark as Sgt. Billings
Rich Cooper as Charlie
Laura Harring as Dehlia Draycott
Pat Carroll as the landlady.
Bruce Willis (cameo) as Bruce
Craig Ellis as Thug #1
Barry Bostwick as Dashiel Biedermeyer

Reception

The film was not received very well by the critics, and it received a 48% rating at Rotten Tomatoes and a 54% at Metacritic.[6] Plugged In said that "the film has all of the oversimplifications of a teen mystery novel with a little - but not enough - humorous self-awareness tossed in to make the story satisfying for adults". The film grossed $6,832,318 on its opening weekend and has since grossed $25,612,520 in the US and $5,054,410 overseas for a total $30,666,930 worldwide.[7]

Bloopers

In the scene where Nancy is talking to Leshing in the projecting room, Leshing mentions that he hasn't been in the room since the night Dehlia Draycott died. He then goes on to mention that she died in 1971. However, in the scene where Nancy and Jane are watching a documentary about Dehlia, they show a scene from one of her movies "Twighlight in China" and at the bottom it says the movie was made in 1980. But thats wrong. Leshing said that he started to work for Dehlia in 1971. When Nancy looks for info about Dehlia Draycott at her computer it comes up that Dehlia died in 1981. So that bloop is a bloop it self.

Soundtrack

"Come To California" (Matthew Sweet)
"Perfect Misfit" (Liz Phair)
"Kids in America" (The Donnas)
"Pretty Much Amazing" (Joanna)
"Looking For Clues" (Katie Melua)
"Hey Nancy Drew" (Chris Price)
"Like A Star" (Corinne Bailey Rae)
"Nice Day" (Persephone's Bees)
"Blue Monday" (Flunk)
"We Came To Party" (J-Kwon)
"All I Need" (Cupid)
"Party Tonight" (Bizarre)

Notes and references

^ Nancy Drew. Retrieved on July 1, 2007.
^ Discoveries. Retrieved on July 1, 2007.
^ 'Nancy Drew' solves the modern girl blues.. Retrieved on July 1, 2007.
^ Teen detective dazzles as she takes on Tinseltown. Retrieved on July 2, 2007.
^ Filming locations for Nancy Drew (2007). Retrieved on July 2, 2007.
^ Nancy Drew. Retrieved on January 17, 2008.
^ Nancy Drew. Retrieved on July 2, 2007.

External links

Official website
Nancy Drew at the Internet Movie Database
Nancy Drew at Rotten Tomatoes
Movie Stills

v • d • eFilms Directed by Andrew Fleming Bad Dreams(1988) • Threesome(1994) • The Craft(1996) • Dick(1999) • Paranormal Girl (2002) • The in-Laws(2003) • Nancy Drew (2007) • Hamlet 2(2008)

v • d • e Nancy Drew The Series' and Novels Nancy Drew Mystery Stories1930s The Secret of the Old Clock(1930) · The Hidden Staircase(1930) · The Bungalow Mystery((1930) · The Mystery at Lilac Inn(1931) · The Secret at Shadow Ranch(1931) · The Secret of Red Gate Farm(1931) · The Clue in the Diary(1932) · Nancy's Mysterious Letter(1932) · The Sign of the Twisted Candles(1933) · The Password to Larkspur Lane(1933) · The Clue of the Broken Locket(1934) · The Message in the Hollow Oak(1935) · The Mystery of the Ivory Charm(1936) · The Whispering Statue(1937) · The Haunted Bridge(1937) · The Clue of the Tapping Heels(1939) 1940s The Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk(1940) · The Mystery at the Moss-Covered Mansion(1941) · The Quest of the Missing Map(1942) · The Clue in the Jewel Box(1943) · The Secret in the Old Attic(1944) · The Clue in the Crumbling Wall(1945) · The Mystery of the Tolling Bell(1946) · The Clue in the Old Album(1947) · The Ghost of Blackwood Hall(1948) · The Clue of the Leaning Chimney(1949) 1950s The Secret of the Wooden Lady(1950) · The Clue of the Black Keys(1951) · The Mystery at the Ski Jump(1952) · The Clue of the Velvet Mask(1953) · The Ringmaster's Secret(1953) · The Scarlet Slipper Mystery(1954) · The Witch Tree Symbol(1955) · The Hidden Window Mystery(1956) · The Haunted Showboat(1957) · The Secret of the Golden Pavilion(1959) 1960s The Clue in the Old Stagecoach(1960) · The Mystery of the Fire Dragon(1961) · The Clue of the Dancing Puppet(1962) · The Moonstone Castle Mystery(1963) · The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes(1964) · The Phantom of Pine Hill(1965) · The Mystery of the 99 Steps(1966) · The Clue in the Crossword Cipher(1967) · The Spider Sapphire Mystery(1968) · The Invisible Intruder(1969) 1970s The Mysterious Mannequin(1970) · The Crooked Banister(1971) · The Secret of Mirror Bay(1972) · The Double Jinx Mystery(1973) · Mystery of the Glowing Eye(1974) · The Secret of the Forgotten City(1975) · The Sky Phantom(1976) · The Strange Message in the Parchment(1977) · Mystery of Crocodile Island(1978) · The Thirteenth Pearl(1979) · The Triple Hoax(1979) 1980s The Flying Saucer Mystery(1980) · The Secret in the Old Lace(1980) · The Greek Symbol Mystery(1980) · The Swami's Ring(1981) · The Kachina Doll Mystery(1981) · The Twin Dilemma(1981) · Captive Witness(1981) · Race Against Time(1982) · The Case of the Rising Stars(1988) 1990s The Treasure in the Royal Tower(1995) · The Wedding Day Mystery(1997) • The E-mail Mystery(1998) 2000s Werewolf in a Winter Wonderland(2003)

The Nancy Drew Files Secrets Can Kill, etc. The Nancy Drew Notebooks,
Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew The Slumber Party Secret, etc.
Sleepover Sleuths, etc. Nancy Drew On Campus New Lives, New Loves, etc. Nancy Drew (All New) Girl Detective,
Papercutz' Girl Detective graphic novels Without a Trace · A Race Against Time, etc.

Where's Nancy?, etc.