Nancy Drew

Review:
The story was pretty amazing. I am fan of series of books of Nancy Drew. It was great. The actors were so great. Good movie!

Summary:

Nancy Drew (Emma Roberts) and her father (Tate Donovan) move from River Heights for a few months and rent a house in Los Angeles which Nancy herself has chosen, due to it being the home of a murdered movie star, Dehlia Draycott (Laura Harring). Draycott died mysteriously following an extended disappearance. which was featured in the tabloids. Despite the mystery, Nancy’s father has forbidden her from further sleuthing and encourages her to focus on high school and being normal.

Due to her talent, intelligence and straight forward, honest personality, Nancy cannot fit in at school, so she reverts to solving mysteries. She traces Dehlia Draycott’s disappearance to having had a child and giving it up for adoption in privacy. She learns that Jane Brighton (Rachael Leigh Cook), a single mother, is Draycott’s true daughter and beneficiary of a will that has since disappeared. She receives a threatening phone call telling her to get off the case, but contacts her father’s business associate, Dashiel Biedermeyer (Barry Bostwick), who is the lawyer of the Draycott estate.

Meanwhile, Nancy’s friend, Ned, shows up in town, along with Nancy’s blue car, saying he’s visiting for a while. Inga and Trish, two girls who think they are fashion gurus, find Ned “cute”. Inga starts to stalk Ned everywhere and tries flirting with him. Inga is also Corky’s sister. Corky is one of Nancy’s new friends who also has a crush on her, and has some tense moments with Ned, since it is quite obvious that Ned has a crush on Nancy. With Inga and Trish, they go to a restaurant, and as they walk out, Nancy finds a bomb in her car. She throws it into a sewer, and it explodes as she leaves, and Ned rushes to her side.

Jane arrives on Nancy’s doorstep to tell her that her child has been taken away from her. She knows that none of the charges of misconduct are true, and reveals that, after Nancy left, a man showed up on her doorstep to threaten her. Nancy demands that her father take up Jane’s case; he agrees, and Jane stays with them. While they are watching a movie Dehlia Draycott starred in, Nancy realizes that she must have hidden her revised will in a prop from one of her movies. As soon as she tracks down its location and recovers the will, she is kidnapped by the villain’s henchmen, who have tracked her using her cell phone’s GPS, which was given from “her father”, but was actually given from the henchmen.

Nancy soon escapes and recovers the will, but gets into a car crash and must go to the emergency room. Her father, along with Biedermeyer, arrives and demands to know what is going on. She admits she has been sleuthing and explains that she has found Draycott’s true will. Biedermeyer offers them a ride home so he can sign a business deal with Carson Drew. Nancy realizes that he is the one who was disinherited by Dehlia’s will, that he is “Z”, who was Dehlia Draycott’s supposed love, and jumps from the car. Biedermeyer catches her and threatens to “squeeze it out of her”, but Nancy first asks him a question. Biedermeyer answers back saying that Dehlia went a bit crazy after her reappearance. He also said that he was not the father of Jane, it was Leshing. Biedermeyer then demands the will. “It’s right here,” Nancy says, and then kicks him and runs off. Biedermeyer and his henchmen corner her and are about to kill her when the groundskeeper, Leshing (Marshall Bell), knocks them unconscious. The will is restored to its rightful owner. Jane is able to get back her daughter and converts the Draycott mansion into a home for single mothers, and the Drews return to River Heights. Back at River Heights, Nancy is sad that the mystery is over, though she denies it. Ned is found outside, applying a convertible top to the blue car. The two share a special moment and he kisses her. Then Nancy receives a phone call from Scottland, telling her they have a case for her to solve. It has something to do with “The Loch Ness Monster” and “Stolen Diamonds.”