History Film / NancyDrew

''Nancy Drew'' is a 2007 film adapting the books about the girl detective. In it, Nancy (Creator/EmmaRoberts) and her father Carson (Tate Donovan) 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. With the help of her friends Ned Nickerson (Max Thieriot) and Corky Veinschtein (Josh Flitter), Nancy will stop at nothing to crack this case.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[TagLine Small town girl, big time adventure.]]]]

* FishOutOfWater. How the film plays it. Nancy is a wholesome 1950s girl, all penny loafers and cup cakes, transported to cynical modern LA.

''Nancy Drew'' is a 2007 film adapting the books about the girl detective. In it, Nancy (Creator/EmmaRoberts) and her father Carson (Tate Donovan) move to UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, where her 60s 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. With the help of her friends Ned Nickerson (Max Thieriot) and Corky Veinschtein (Josh Flitter), Nancy will stop at nothing to crack this case.

* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__lslpPpVAi4/TITZqVSTUvI/AAAAAAAAAjE/peVYHxCOLZE/s1600/DSC00799.JPG Behold her wardrobe!]] Nancy's old-fashioned clothes actually look really cute on her. A fashion designer she later meets agrees, and photographs her for their publication.

''Nancy Drew'' is a 2007 film adapting the books about the girl detective. In it, Nancy (Creator/EmmaRoberts) and her father Carson (Tate Donovan) 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. With the help of her friends Ned Nickerson (Max Thieriot) and Corky Veinschtein (Josh Flitter), Nancy will stop at nothing to crack this case.

* 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.

* WhamLine: This exchange as Nancy talks to her father on her new cellphone. [[spoiler:That turns out to actually be a tracking device]]

'''Carson''': Hi, honey. Wait a minute. What number are you calling from?\\

''Nancy Drew'' is a 2007 film adapting the books about the girl detective. In it, Nancy (Creator/EmmaRoberts) and her father Carson (Tate Donovan) 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.

* 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.]]

'''Carson''': Hi, honey. Wait, what number are you calling from?\\

''Nancy Drew'' is a 2007 film adapting the books about the girl detective. In it, Nancy (Creator/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.

* WhamLine: This exchange as Nancy talks to her father on her new cellphone. [[spoiler:that turns out to actually be a tracking device]]

* WhamLine: This exchange as Nancy talks to her father on her new cellphone. [[spoiler:that turns out to actually be a tracking device]]

'''Carson''': I didn't give you a cellphone.

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

** 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 watches of Draycott [[spoiler:contains the clue as to where she hid her will.]]
* 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.

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

* 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.]]

* OhCrap: When Nancy [[spoiler:sees Biedermeyer's signature and realizes she's in the car with Dehlia's murderer.]]

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Biedermeyer is "Z", the mysterious associate Draycott wrote to. He murdered the actress because she left him out of her will.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:The creepy groundskeeper John Leshing]] is actually not the murderer but [[spoiler:Dehlia's lover and Jane's father.]]

* TherapyBackfire: While not therapy-related, a similar situation happened with two girls when Inga takes Nancy into a clothes boutique to update her "retro" look:

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: [[spoiler:Biedermeyer groans loudly when he hears his own recorded confession being played back to him.]]

* VictoryIsBoring: Once the case is solved and the culprit arrested, Nancy sits at home bored because now there's no mystery to occupy her. [[AndTheAdventureContinues But not for long]].

-->'''Nancy''': Don't worry about that guy from ''Smallville''. He's not my type.
-->'''Ned''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint You have a type]]?"

* HollywoodLaw: {{Discussed}} by an actor playing a detective on a TV series set in the 1950s (Creator/BruceWillis in a cameo) who notes they have police in the show give Miranda warnings, which didn't come about until 1966.

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

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

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

* 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 retro look, even photographing it for their magazine.

* 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.

* 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 abandon sleuthing and stay normal.

''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.

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

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

* 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.