Nancy Drew | 
| Director: Andrew Fleming
Actors: Emma Roberts (ii), Josh Flitter, Max Thieriot, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tate Donovan
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  86 reviews
Sales Rank: 2729
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 99 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 116067
UPC: 085391160670
EAN: 0085391160670
ASIN: B00005JPO4
Theatrical Release Date: June 15, 2007
Release Date: March 11, 2008
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Product Description
With her magnifying glass and fingerprint powder in hand, Nancy Drew leaves River Heights for Hollywood... but not to meet that guy on Smallville, as her boyfriend Ned fears. No, she's out to solve one of the greatest mysteries ever: the death of movie star Dehlia Draycott. But the bigger mystery is how our perky, plaid-clad sleuth will fit in with the text-messaging teen queens of mean she meets at Hollywood High. Join Emma Roberts as Nancy in this timeless girl detective mystery as she finds danger, adventure and romance. Because wherever Nancy goes, excitement follows.
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Nancy Drew is an iconic girl detective created by Carolyn Keene with a passion for mystery and all things old. The small-town Nancy Drew (played by Julia Roberts' niece Emma Roberts) is about to experience a serious case of culture shock as she heads to Hollywood on an extended business trip with her father Carson Drew (Tate Donovan) and prepares to join the 21st century (well, sort of) at Hollywood High. Having promised her father that she'll give up sleuthing in favor of becoming a "normal" teenager, Nancy tries her best to resist the lure of the age-old mystery of famous actress Dehlia Draycott's (Laura Harring) death, but living in Dehlia's old booby-trapped mansion full of clues proves too powerful a force for Nancy to resist. Feeling completely out of place with high school peers who prove self-absorbed and obsessed with fashion, Nancy makes an unlikely friend in 12-year-old Corky (Josh Flitter), the brother of one of the meanest girls at school. Hormones and hero worship land Corky right in the middle of Nancy's dangerous detective work and inspire some good old-fashioned jealousy when Nancy's close friend Ned (Max Thieriot) visits from River Heights. Nancy's deductive skills are as sharp as ever, and her inspired detective work will profoundly impact the lives of complete stranger Jane Brighton (Rachael Leigh Cook), her own father, and a host of others. Offering a faster pace for modern audiences than the classic Nancy Drew films, this 2007 movie is sure to enthrall a whole new generation of tweens and teens while simultaneously living up to their parents' expectations. Rated PG for mild violence, thematic material, and brief language. --Tami Horiuchi
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 Can't Stop Watching It Over and Over! June 13, 2009
Patsy Cline (Blue Ridge Mtns.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
From the first time I saw this little movie on TV, I wanted to see it again. The characters have great chemistry and I love Miss Roberts as Nancy Drew! I only hope this becomes a series...I know the actress will soon be too old, but one can only hope! By the way, I am nearing 60 years of age and watch this alone as well as with my granddaughter.
 You have to make a choice June 4, 2009
Mark Wilsonwood (Grapevine, TX)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
When you're making a movie about a nostalgic subject, you have to make a choice: Either make a parody, poking fun at the original (as the Brady Bunch movies did), or try to be faithful, at least in spirit, to the original concept. You can't take a middle road.
Yet that's what the makers of this movie tried to do. Nancy was sarcastically portrayed -- for laughs-- as a "little Miss Perfect" (which was not true to the original stories), and at the same time shown as the bright, spunky crime-solver. The combining of these two approaches mixed together about as well as oil and water.
This movie tried to have it both ways. And failed.
 A 60% June 4, 2009
Conrad Vickroy
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought the movie had good action in parts of it. overall I'd say on a 1-10 scale I'd give it a 6. I thought in kinda dragged on slow. overall it was pretty good. I'd recommend it for 8-12 years of age because it's really more of a kid movie.
"It really gets my goat when someone tries to kill me. It's so rude! But it only makes me want to try harder." May 28, 2009
H. Bala (Carson - hey, we have an IKEA store! - CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Man, I am just wondering how many Man points I lose by admitting that I actually used to read Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden mysteries when I was a kid, these being an offshoot of reading pretty much all the Hardy Boys and the Three Investigators books. But a bit of back history: Nancy Drew's been around for over 75 years, having debuted way back in 1930 in THE SECRET OF THE OLD CLOCK by "Carolyn Keene" (actually a pseudonym for a gang of writers). This isn't the first time that Nancy's been on the big screen. The late '30s had actress Bonita Granville starring in four Nancy Drew flicks. Then, of course, in the late '70s, Pamela Sue Martin played her on television, and it sort of blew my mind when her Nancy Drew got to hung out with the Hardy Boys (The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries: Season Two). I think there was another film a few years ago, as well as a very short lived TV series in the '90s (Nancy Drew (1995) - The Complete First Season (Boxset)), but I haven't seen either of those.
Okay, about this movie: Nancy Drew isn't like most girls. She lives in the tiny, squeaky-clean Midwestern town of River Heights, where it seems like the 1950s have hung around. Nancy's inquisitive nature has made her into the town sleuth and she's surprisingly well regarded by the River Heights authorities, whose thunder she habitually steals. But her world is upended when she and her lawyer dad relocate temporarily to Los Angeles. Nancy happens to be clever, super polite, uber-organized, and she sports retro sensibilities ("I like old-fashioned things," she declares). It's only naturally that she has a hard time fitting in the big metropolis and into her new school in L.A.
After her last escapade, Nancy's concerned dad had wrung a promise from her to stop sleuthing. But, c'mon, now. Charged with picking out their place of residence in L.A., is it really a surprise that Nancy sets her eyes on a mansion oozing with mystery? Things start out simply enough as Nancy explores the past (and shocking demise) of the mansion's former inhabitant, a once famous film actress. But if you know your Nancy Drew, then you figure it's only a matter of time before she gets deep into doodoo. Nancy Drew plus skullduggery plus attempts on our heroine's life? That's just par for the course, brother.
The mystery's okay (revolving around a long missing will), but, for me, the fun stuff crops up whenever we see Nancy's prim & proper, small town sensibilities juxtaposed against L.A.'s big heap of attitude, hipness, and blase. An example: In the course of her investigations, Nancy ends up on a movie set where, because of her wardrobe, she gets mistaken for an extra in a '50s film (which, by the way, is when we see Bruce Willis's cameo as himself). Then there's what happens when her "friends" take her to a high-fashioned clothing store for a makeover...
I dig that Nancy's well-mannered and so unflappable, even when the kids at her new school prank her or when she discovers that the big time L.A. cops, unlike the local constabulary back home, aren't about to be at her beck and call (she reports to LAPD that her moccasin slippers were stolen and gets laughed at for her trouble). But I also dig that Emma Roberts is a good enough actress that you sense her character's vulnerability. This film relocates Nancy Drew to today's contemporary climate, which means that the cool L.A. kids get to scope out Nancy in her retro clothes and penny loafers. They note her over-achieving ways and her fastidiousness. And they consign her to freak status. Initially, only an annoying chubby 12-year-old kid would hang out with her. Of course Nancy wins the kids over, but it helps that her cute hometown non-boyfriend, Ned Nickerson, stops by for a visit and, also, that she's handy with the tracheotomy.
Much like Amy Adams in Enchanted (Widescreen Edition), Emma Roberts makes the film work by playing it straight, without a trace of irony or a wink at the audience. And, so, I bought into her admittedly eccentric character. I think it's a tricky role to pull off, because, for one thing, Nancy Drew doesn't have much of a sense of humor, so she can't endear herself by cracking jokes. Also she does have a bit of that junior Martha Stewart vibe going, which could've turned off some folks. Instead, she becomes endearing by virtue of her falling into fish-out-of-water predicaments, by her pluck and resourcefulness and kindness, and by the fact that the charming Emma Roberts invests her role with warmth and sincerity. Also, her Nash Rambler convertible is awfully keen.
So is this the same Nancy Drew I grew up reading about? No, not really. Nancy Drew's sensibilities are intact, but, as placed in this modern setting, there's a certain disconnect and a decided tongue-in-cheek element about her. So while Emma Roberts plays her part strictly straight, the film itself nudges us in the ribs. I didn't mind at all.
Good for kids and pre-teens, painless for adults May 27, 2009
Joseph P. Menta, Jr. (Philadelphia, PA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The conceit of this 2007 update/reboot of the Nancy Drew franchise (which over the decades has included books, movies, TV shows, and probably other offerings I'm unaware of) is that everything in Nancy's world has been updated except Nancy herself. Nancy as seen here prefers to dress like a young girl from the 1940's and 50's ("I like old-fashioned things") and has the polite manners of that era, too, which will likely make older viewers sigh with nostalgia.
With her retro ways and her sometimes over-the-top crimefighting skills (Nancy actually carries a grappling hook to descend from roofs), initially one wonders if we should be laughing at Nancy along with her teen peers. But, no, like those other characters, we soon fall into the "we should respect others even if they're a little different" vibe that the movie enthusiastically gives off before too long.
Once we're used to her eccentricities, Nancy comes off as a charming, likable character, and one we care about as she takes on a somewhat dangerous mystery. Things never get too scary, though. In fact, the operative adjective to describe the movie is "nice". It's a cute, fun, nice little movie that will show you a pleasant time for an hour and thirty-five minutes. Whether one should point out that "Nancy Drew" might have done better at the box office if it had slightly bigger ambitions than simply being "nice" (and thus maybe generated a sequel) is another question, of course.
The standard DVD of "Nancy Drew" looks and sounds great, and there are a variety of mostly kid-oriented special features to round out the proceedings.
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