Molly Gunn is your typical rich, spoiled kid that grew up with everything she ever wanted. She is the freewheeling daughter of a late rock legend and the toast of the Manhattan social scene. She spends most of her time shopping and just living the good life. On the night of her 22nd birthday though that is all about to change. This is the night she runs out of money when her corrupt business manager steals her inheritance. She might have seen the signs coming had she known where to look like the fact that her power had been turned off. So now Molly is forced to do something she's never done before - get a job. After several attempts to find employment her friend helps her out and she becomes the nanny to the precocious Ray Schleine, an "eight-year-old going on forty." Emotionally distant from her Record executive mother Roma, Ray has grown up with a revolving door of nannies and too little stability. It soon become apparent that Molly and Ray both feel painfully alone in the world and they share many of the same backgrounds as Molly has pretty much been on her own since she was Ray’s age also being raised by nannies and missing her parents. Where Ray has grown up in a hurry, Molly has refused to grow up acting like a child for the last fourteen years. But as they try to make their new arrangement work, each discovers in the other a true friend.

I have to admit that the movie wasn’t as bad as I imagined, I mean the movie does fall into every single cliché and pitfall for this type of movie but it still does a good enough job along the way to be entertaining and not a total and complete disaster. This movie could have been that because the writers and producers did nothing to improve or change the story of this movie that is identical to at least twenty movies in the last decade or so. The reason the movie was not a failure is simple Dakota Fanning does an incredible and sometimes touching job of playing the compulsive neurotic kid that has been forced to grow up too fast. Brittany Murphy on the other hand proves once more that she is mostly just a pretty face as she plays her character so over the top it’s impossible to believe. The movie is ok, but that is the problem the movie could have been so much more had they at least done some new things with the story and got a competent actor to go along with Dakota Fanning. The movie could have also used a pick up in the pace and tempo of the story as at times it drags and seems almost endlessly slow because the audience already knows what is going to happen because they have most likely seen one of the movies mirrors. All in all not a bad attempt and a touching story, the movie is entertaining for the most part and despite many of its faults it does end up being an ok movie.
3 stars out of 5