2007 · family · adventure · crime
Nancy Drew
Directed by Andrew Fleming1h 39m2007
Intrepid teenage private eye Nancy Drew heads to Tinseltown with her father to investigate the unsolved murder of a movie star in this old-fashioned whodunit based on Carolyn Keene's popular series of books for young adults. But can the small-town girl cut through the Hollywood hype to solve the case?
Our read: Nancy Drew (2007) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded family · adventure · crime entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle family / adventure, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
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“You want a breezy teen detective mystery with old-Hollywood charm and mild peril.”
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