Nancy Drew (2007 film)

Nancy Drew is a 2007 American neonoir 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.

Nancy Drew Emma Roberts and her widowed father, Carson Drew Tate Donovan, move from River Heights for only a few months and rent a house in California, where Carson has a temporary job. Nancy chose their California house because it was the home of Dehlia Draycott, a murdered movie star based on Natalie Wood whose case has never been solved. Despite the mystery, Nancys father has forbidden her from further sleuthing and encourages her to focus on high school and living like a normal teenager. Nancy struggles to fit in at her new school, only befriending a younger boy, Corky Josh Flitter. She realizes that the sleuthing world is the only place she fits in and decides to solve the Draycott mystery behind her dads back. In the Draycott mansion, she discovers a letter that Draycott wrote to an unknown Z, who was supposedly Draycotts lover. From photographs of Draycott before her death, Nancy deduces that, just before Draycott was murdered, she had a baby and secretly gave it up for adoption. Nancy eventually finds Draycotts child, who turns out to be a young single mom named Jane Brighton, and who also turns out to be the sole beneficiary of Draycotts will, which has disappeared. Nancy receives a threatening phone call telling her to get off the case, and contacts her fathers business associate, Dashiel Biedermeyer Barry Bostwick, the lawyer of the Draycott estate, to assist her with the case.Meanwhile, as an early birthday present, Nancys father presents her with the blue Nash Metropolitan convertible she left back at home in River Heights. Along with her roadster comes her longtime boyfriend, Ned Nickerson Max Thieriot. Ned understands her persistence in sleuthing and finds himself assisting Nancy with the Draycott mystery. Corky becomes jealous of Nancy and Neds close relationship and tries his best to get Nancys attention. At one point, a bomb is left in Nancys roadster. Nancy manages to remove it and though she is knocked unconscious in the blast, she soon comes to

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