However, while Shea’s visual and storytelling choices leave something to be desired, it’s the performances she gets from the universally excellent cast that make the movie work. While director Katt Shea ( The Rage: Carrie 2) is making everything abundantly clear for the children in the audience, it frequently feels like the film is talking down. While the latter scene works better than the former, the whole movie unfortunately suffers from a lack of finesse. The same goes for the way we see Nancy use her observation skills to deduce the cyberbully’s identity, the camera movements and framing choices practically leading us by the hand. When Nancy balks at her father’s anger over the revenge scheme, her aunt Hannah (Andrea Anders) sets out the emotional stakes by describing her brother’s state of mind for both Nancy and us. The film–especially in its first half hour–has to get through a lot of business and quite a few scenes feel a little heavy-handed in their messaging or exposition. If that sounds like a lot to take in, it is. Luckily, that service also brings her in contact with Flora (Linda Lavin), an older woman in town who believes she’s being haunted. Not only does Nancy quickly uncover the culprit, she soon hatches a revenge plot that lands her with community service time. We first see her skateboarding, free and happy, until her friend George (Zoe Renee) enlists her to comfort their friend Bess (Mackenzie Graham) after she gets cyber-bullied. This Nancy is a Chicago girl newly transplanted to her father’s (Sam Trammell) small hometown of River Heights after her mother’s death. Now, produced by Ellen Degeneres and played by the breakout star of 2017’s It, Sophia Lillis, she returns again in Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase and she doesn’t seem a day over 17.Īdapted from Mildred Wirt Benson’s 1930 novel of the same name by co-writers Nina Fiore and John Herrera, the film shows us early that this is a Nancy Drew for a new generation.
Since the girl detective character first appeared in 1930, there have been half a dozen movies and a ’70s TV show with the Hardy Boys (which included a young Shaun Cassidy), but her last big screen outing was in 2007, when she was played by Emma Roberts in a post-modern affair that saw small-town Nancy bring her detective act to the big city. This isn’t the first time Nancy Drew has come to life. Nancy (Sophia Lillis, second from right) is aided in her youthful sleuthing by her pals (L-R) Helen (Laura Slade Wiggins), George (Zoë Renee) and Bess (Mackenzie Graham).
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