Nancy Drew (2007)

Teen detective Nancy Drew accompanies her father on a business trip to Los Angeles, where she happens upon clues to a murder mystery involving a movie star.

Director:

Andrew Fleming

Writers:

Andrew Fleming (screenplay), Tiffany Paulsen (screenplay),

Stars:

Emma Roberts, Tate Donovan, Max Thieriot

7 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Emma Roberts	...	Nancy Drew
Craig Gellis	...	Thug
Rich Cooper	...	Charlie
Max Thieriot	...	Ned Nickerson
Amy Bruckner	...	Bess
Kay Panabaker	...	Georgie
Cliff Bemis	...	Chief McGinnis
Tate Donovan	...	Carson Drew
David Doty	...	Father Murray
Laura Harring	...	Dehlia Draycott (as Laura Elena Harring)
Pat Carroll	...	Landlady
Monica Parker	...	Hannah
Caroline Aaron	...	Barbara Barbara
Marshall Bell	...	John Leshing
Daniella Monet	...	Inga Veinshtein

Storyline

Nancy Drew accompanies her father on a business trip to Los Angeles California. Nancy booked an abandoned house for them to stay in hiding the mystery of a movie star's murder from her father as a promise that she would stay out of trouble and be normal. Fitting into high school as a normal teen turns out to be harder than it sounds, for Nancy Drew. She soon befriends a younger boy and determines that the sleuthing world is where she belongs. While snooping through the attic, she finds a letter from the Hollywood star, Dehlia Draycott, written to someone named 'Z'. This leads Nancy on a wild goose chase as she comes to find out that Dehlia has a secret daughter, her daughter is to inherit everything and someone killed Dehlia because they were written out of the will.

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Plot Keywords:

murder | movie star | clue | detective | chase | 

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Taglines:

Small Town Girl. Big Time Adventure.

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Genres:

Comedy | Crime | Family | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

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Certificate:

PG

Details

Official Sites:

Official Soundtrack Website Warner Bros [United States]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 June 2007 (Canada)

Also Known As:

Nancy Drew

Filming Locations:

1102 Del Rey Avenue, Pasadena, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$20,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£135,753 (UK) (19 October 2007)

Gross:

£803,109 (UK) (16 November 2007)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros., Virtual Studios

Technical Specs

Runtime:

99 min

Sound Mix:

SDDS Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

At the very start of the film, the camera closes in on a bookcase. All the books on that bookcase are Nancy Drew novels.

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Goofs

When Nancy is printing out the details of all the possible matches on the 3 adopted children; although the names in the left column of the pages are different, the list of addresses in the right column is the same on each sheet.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Thug: Who are you?
Nancy Drew: Hello. I'm Nancy Drew. It's nice to meet you. May I ask who you are?

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Crazy Credits

During the opening sequence, the camera pans through shelves holding actual Nancy Drew books.

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Connections

Features Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (2004)

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Soundtracks

Cosmic Hollow
(uncredited)
Music by Patrick Cassidy
Directors Cuts Production Music

User Reviews

I actually liked this movie

I have read over 100 of the Nancy Drew books, and if you are not bright enough to catch on yet, Nancy Drew the movie was of a YOUNGER Nancy Drew, not the 18-year-old that doesn't go to school that all of the books are about. This was when she was sixteen. So naturally, she would of not as been as smart as the one in the book considering she is only in the 10th grade. Other than that, I thought the movie was very cute. It was clean and appropriate for everyone. It was funny at times. I thought Emma Roberts did a great job. She was articulate, in character, and cute. I liked the awkwardness that Nancy and Ned had around each other because they obviously were not old enough to be in a serious relationship like they have in the books. It was a cute, PG movie that I throughly enjoyed because I, unlike most people my age, enjoy movies without sex, drugs, or profanity.