Nancy Drew (2007)
Directed by Andrew Fleming
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?
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What critics compared Nancy Drew to
Despite making room for such bombast, “Enola Holmes” remains tamer and more tasteful in its high-energy storytelling than Guy Ritchie’s recent “Sherlock Holmes” movies, and considerably more fun than last year’s “Nancy Drew” reboot.
What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: It’s Nancy Drew meets Sense and Sensibility meets Suffragette .
It’s at this point the story goes full Nancy Drew -style, hardboiled mystery and Steph uses her cooking vlog as a channel to report her personal investigation into the case.
Updates of her disappearance become a regular feature of Stephanie’s vlog, and she spends more time playing “Nancy Drew” as she tries to discover what happened to her new BFF.
Unimaginatively directed by Jake Schreier (“Robot & Frank”), the film benefits from its confidence in the page-turning pull of its random but breathless plotting, which borrows as much from “Nancy Drew” as from John Hughes.
A squad of fresh-faced newbie cops working the teen beat smacks of “Hardy Boys” and “Nancy Drew,” but with a badge and a brooding demeanor.