Nancy Drew (2007 film)
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| Directed by | Andrew Fleming |
| Produced by | Jerry Weintraub |
| Written by | Andrew Fleming Tiffany Paulsen |
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Emma Roberts Josh Flitter Max Thieriot Rachael Leigh Cook Tate Donovan Daniella Monet Kelly Vitz Marshall Bell Laura Harring |
| Music by | Ralph Sall |
| Cinematography | Alexander Gruszynski |
| Edited by | Jeff Freeman |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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99 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20 million |
| Box office | $30.7 million |
Nancy Drew is a 2007 American neo-noir mystery comedy film loosely based on the popular series of mystery novels about the titular teen detective. It stars Emma Roberts as Nancy Drew, Max Thieriot as Ned, Kay Panabaker as George, and Amy Bruckner as Bess Marvin. Set in Los Angeles, it was directed by Andrew Fleming.
Critics' reactions were mixed, with the general thought of it being refreshing. The film grossed $30,666,930 worldwide on a $20 million budget.
Nancy Drew (Emma Roberts) and her widowed father, Carson Drew (Tate Donovan), temporarily move from their quaint hometown River Heights to California, where Carson has a temporary job. Nancy's father also wants to use this time as a way to stop his daughter's sleuthing as he finds it to be dangerous, and encourage her to focus on high school and living like a normal teenager. But unbeknownst to Carson, Nancy chose their California house because its previous owner, Dehlia Draycott, was a movie star who disappeared for several months before being murdered during a house party and found in her pool. Nancy struggles to fit in at her new school, only befriending a younger boy, Corky (Josh Flitter). After discovering a letter that Draycott wrote to an unknown "Z", who was supposedly Draycott's lover, she realizes that the sleuthing world is the only place she fits in and decides to solve the mystery behind her dad's back. From photographs of Draycott during her last film, Nancy deduces that she had a baby and secretly gave it up for adoption. Nancy eventually finds Draycott's child, who turns out to be a young single mom named Jane Brighton (Rachael Leigh Cook), and who also turns out to be the sole beneficiary of Draycott's will, which has disappeared. Nancy receives a threatening phone call telling her to get off the case, and contacts her father's business associate, Dashiel Biedermeyer (Barry Bostwick), the lawyer of the Draycott estate, to assist her with the case.
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