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-->'''Nancy''': Don't worry about that guy from ''Smallville''? He's not my type.

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-->'''Nancy''': Don't worry about that guy from ''Smallville''? ''Smallville''. He's not my type.
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* YoureNotMyType: Ned is worried Nancy will fall for someone, telling he had a dream where she forgot about him for "the guy from ''{{Series/Smallville}}''" Her attempt to console him doesn't work.

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* YoureNotMyType: Ned is worried Nancy will fall for someone, someone else, telling he had a dream where she forgot about him for "the guy from ''{{Series/Smallville}}''" Her attempt to console him doesn't work.
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** The movie Nancy watched of Draycott [[spoiler:contains the clue as to where she hid her will.]]

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** The movie Nancy watched watches of Draycott [[spoiler:contains the clue as to where she hid her will.]]
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Biedermeyer is "Z", the mysterious associate Draycott wrote to. He murdered the actress because she left him out of her will.]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Oh hi RachelLeighCook as [[spoiler:Draycott's daughter.]]

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* HeyItsThatGuy: Oh hi RachelLeighCook RachaelLeighCook as [[spoiler:Draycott's daughter.]]

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* ChekhovsGun:
** Nancy receives a phone from her father for her birthday. [[spoiler:Or not. It's actually from the villain, and used to track her.]] Later, it returns again when [[spoiler:she uses it to record his JustBetweenYouAndMe.]]
** The movie Nancy watched of Draycott [[spoiler:contains the clue as to where she hid her will.]]



* ChekhovsGun: Nancy receives a phone from her father for her birthday. [[spoiler:Or not. It's actually from the villain, and used to track her.]] Later, it returns again when [[spoiler:she uses it to record his JustBetweenYouAndMe.]]


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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:The cell phone Biedermeyer gave Nancy to let his henchmen track her is then used to record his confession.]]


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* {{Jerkass}}: Dashiel Biedermeyer, the lawyer of the Draycott estate, who is pretty unhelpful to Nancy during her search for Dehlia Draycott's will. His very first scene has him ignoring her questions by pretending to have just gotten a phone call from his earpiece.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: [[spoiler:Biedermeyer reveals he was the one to kill Dehlia when he corners Nancy back at her house. Unbeknownst to him, Natalie records his confession on her cell phone.]]


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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: [[spoiler:Biedermeyer groans loudly when he hears his own recorded confession being played back to him.]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Oh hi RachelLeighCook as [[spoiler:Draycott's daughter.]]


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* RedHerring: [[spoiler:The creepy groundskeeper John Leshing]] is actually not the murderer but [[spoiler:Dehlia's lover and Jane's father.]]

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* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: Nancy's old-fashioned clothes actually look really cute on her. A fashion designer she later meets agrees, and photographs her from their publication.



* {{Understatement}}: Nancy's reaction to someone trying to kill her? "It's so rude!"


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* {{Understatement}}: Nancy's reaction to someone trying to kill her? "It's so rude!"
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* BumblingDad: Nancy's dad Carson Drew, in stark contrast to the books, where he is a competent newspaper editor who is supportive of Nancy's detective work. Here he's pretty wimpy and insists she just abandoning sleuthing and stay normal.

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* BumblingDad: Nancy's dad Carson Drew, in stark contrast to the books, where he is a competent newspaper editor who is supportive of Nancy's detective work. Here he's pretty wimpy and insists she just abandoning abandon sleuthing and stay normal.

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* AndTheAdventureContinues: Not long after Nancy moves back to River Heights, her dad tells her she has a phone call regarding "[[NoodleImplements the Loch Ness Monster, and some stolen diamonds]]."

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* AndTheAdventureContinues: Not long after Nancy moves back to River Heights, her dad tells her she has a phone call regarding "[[NoodleImplements the Loch Ness Monster, monster, and some stolen diamonds]].""
* BumblingDad: Nancy's dad Carson Drew, in stark contrast to the books, where he is a competent newspaper editor who is supportive of Nancy's detective work. Here he's pretty wimpy and insists she just abandoning sleuthing and stay normal.
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* FakingTheDead: Corky pretends to be choking to get Nancy to perform CPR on him. However, he starts giggling just before she does, blowing the act.

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* {{Understatement}}: Nancy's reaction to someone trying to kill her?
-->"It's so rude!"

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* {{Understatement}}: Nancy's reaction to someone trying to kill her?
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* VictoryIsBoring: Once the case is solved and the culprit arrested, Nancy sits at home bored because now there's no mystery to occupy here. [[AndTheAdventureContinues But not for long]].

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* VictoryIsBoring: Once the case is solved and the culprit arrested, Nancy sits at home bored because now there's no mystery to occupy here.her. [[AndTheAdventureContinues But not for long]].
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: So who stole Nancy's shoes? What was the point of stealing them?
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* TheCameo: While in Hollywood Nancy comes across Creator/BruceWillis, who is currently being filmed for a detective movie.

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* AmbiguousTimePeriod: River Heights and Nancy are seemingly completely unchanged since the 50s, but Los Angeles is clearly in the modern day. In addition, the glamorous movie starlet behind the case Nancy investigates in-film seems to have waltzed right out of the 1930s and 1940s, both in attitude, the films she starred in, and reason for dropping out of the public eye. But [[spoiler:the age of her daughter]] means her career had to happen in the late 70s/early 80s at the ''earliest'', which were a very, very different Hollywood, and the "scandal" wouldn't have been nearly such a big deal. It's made some speculate the entire film was originally meant to be a period piece.
** Clues suggests the starlet's career spanned from about 1960 to 1980 since we learn she had a twenty year career, and she died in 1981.



** This conceit does raise some interesting questions about the in-film mystery, though. The glamorous movie starlet behind the case Nancy investigates in-film seems to have waltzed right out of the 1930s and 1940s, both in attitude, the films she starred in, and reason for dropping out of the public eye. [[spoiler:But the age of her daughter means her career had to happen in the late 70s/early 80s at the ''earliest'', which were a very, very different Hollywood, and the "scandal" wouldn't have been nearly such a big deal. It's made some speculate the entire film was originally meant to be a period piece.]]
** Clues suggests the starlet's career spanned from about 1960 to 1980 since we learn she had a twenty year career, and she died in 1981.


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* VictoryIsBoring: Once the case is solved and the culprit arrested, Nancy sits at home bored because now there's no mystery to occupy here. [[AndTheAdventureContinues But not for long]].
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-->'''Nancy''': Oh, and that guy from ''Smallville''? He's not my type.
-->'''Ned''': Wait, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint you have a type]]?"

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-->'''Nancy''': Oh, and Don't worry about that guy from ''Smallville''? He's not my type.
-->'''Ned''': Wait, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint you You have a type]]?"
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* OutrunTheExplosion: When Nancy finds a bomb in her car, she throws it down a manhole and leaps away. Aside from knocking her unconscious, she's fine the next day.

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* OutrunTheExplosion: OutrunTheFireball: When Nancy finds a bomb in her car, she throws it down a manhole and leaps away. Aside from knocking her unconscious, she's fine the next day.
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* OutrunTheExplosion: When Nancy finds a bomb in her car, she throws it down a manhole and leaps away. Aside from knocking her unconscious, she's fine the next day.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: Not long after Nancy moves back to River Heights, her dad tells her she has a phone call regarding "[[NoodleImplements the Loch Ness Monster, and some stolen diamonds]]."
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* IndecisiveParody: The film teeters back and forth from making Nancy into an old-fashioned dork to [[GoodIsOldFashioned the wisest of all girls]].

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* IndecisiveParody: The film teeters back and forth from between making Nancy into an old-fashioned dork to or [[GoodIsOldFashioned the wisest of all girls]].
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* IndecisiveParody: The film teeters back and forth from making Nancy into an old-fashioned dork to [[GoodIsOldFashioned the wisest of all girls]].
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* OhCrap: When Nancy [[spoiler:sees Biedermeyer's signature and realizes she's in the car with Dehlia's murderer.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Nancy receives a phone from her father for her birthday. [[spoiler:Or not. It's actually from the villain, and used to track her.]] Later, it returns again when [[spoiler:she uses it to record his JustBetweenYouAndMe.]]
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* {{Expy}}: Dehlia Draycott is loosely based on Creator/NatalieWood.


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* HideYourPregnancy: [[spoiler:When examining photos of Draycott during her last year alive, Nancy notices that for several months she was photographed only from the chest up. She deduces from this that Draycott must have been pregnant.]]
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* SpringtimeForHitler: Inga and Trish take Nancy to a clothing store in hopes that she'll be ridiculed for her old-fashioned style. The fashion expert there instead thinks Inga and Trish's clothes look tacky and mismatched and loves Nancy's matching look, even photographing it for their magazine.
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* CharacterDerailment: In the books, Nancy's father supported her sleuthing and uses his connections to help her. Here he's a BumblingDad who frets about her and wants her to just stay normal.
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* CharacterDerailment: In the books, Nancy's father supported her sleuthing and uses his connections to help her. Here he's a BumblingDad who frets about her and wants her to just stay normal.

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--> '''Nancy:''' "Ned, he's ''twelve''."

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--> '''Nancy:''' "Ned, Ned, he's ''twelve''."



--> "It's so rude!"
* RunningGag: Nancy bribing uncooperative middlemen with pastries.

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--> "It's -->"It's so rude!"
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Nancy bribing uncooperative middlemen with pastries.pastries.
** Ned fearing Nancy will fall for someone else.
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''Nancy Drew'' is a 2007 film adapting the books about the girl detective. In it, Nancy (EmmaRoberts) and her father move to UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, where her 50s sensibilities clash with the modern style of her classmates. While trying to fit in, Nancy investigates a mystery that led her to pick this house in LA: it was once the home of Dehlia Draycott, a murdered movie star who took some secrets of hers to the grave.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* ChekhovsSkill: Nancy suggests a CPR class to the principal. We are led to believe the payoff was a prank where Ingra convinced Corky to pretend to choke during a basketball game, but it actually culminates during the party scene when she has to perform an emergency tracheotomy when a girl has a severe allergic reaction to the peanut crackers a guy she was making out with ate.
* FishOutOfWater. How the film plays it. Nancy is a wholesome 1950s girl, all penny loafers and cup cakes, transported to cynical modern LA.
** This conceit does raise some interesting questions about the in-film mystery, though. The glamorous movie starlet behind the case Nancy investigates in-film seems to have waltzed right out of the 1930s and 1940s, both in attitude, the films she starred in, and reason for dropping out of the public eye. [[spoiler:But the age of her daughter means her career had to happen in the late 70s/early 80s at the ''earliest'', which were a very, very different Hollywood, and the "scandal" wouldn't have been nearly such a big deal. It's made some speculate the entire film was originally meant to be a period piece.]]
** Clues suggests the starlet's career spanned from about 1960 to 1980 since we learn she had a twenty year career, and she died in 1981.
* HonorBeforeReason: Nancy will not drive over the posted speed limit, just one instance of her refusing to use the ends to justify the means. "It's important to judge the ends and judge the means independently, in order to do what's right."
* PrecociousCrush: Corky likes Nancy, and she keeps them at a JustFriends distance, but Ned's insecure enough to think she might reciprocate.
--> '''Nancy:''' "Ned, he's ''twelve''."
* {{Understatement}}: Nancy's reaction to someone trying to kill her?
--> "It's so rude!"
* RunningGag: Nancy bribing uncooperative middlemen with pastries.
* WildTeenParty: Nancy throws her birthday party which then turns into this (complete with police being called for the disturbance), until Trish collapses due to allergies and Nancy performs first aid on her. One thing to note is that Nancy's father congratulated her on the party because it's a sign of normalcy (for an average American teenage girl).
* YoureNotMyType: Ned is worried Nancy will fall for someone, telling he had a dream where she forgot about him for "the guy from ''{{Series/Smallville}}''" Her attempt to console him doesn't work.
-->'''Nancy''': Oh, and that guy from ''Smallville''? He's not my type.
-->'''Ned''': Wait, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint you have a type]]?"
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