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It also brings her into conflict with Helen Corning, the cyber-bully’s soon-to-be ex-girlfriend. *image courtesy of Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)Ĭlearly, this opening escapade is intended to modernize Drew for the target early teen demo and establish her resourcefulness. Consequently, when Marvin falls victim to a popular jock’s cyber-bullying, Drew masterminds a stinging payback caper.

This Drew is not so happy her widower father Carson Drew decided to relocate from her beloved Chicago to the supposedly peaceful River Heights, but she makes fast friends with the brainy Bess Marvin and earnest Georgia “George” Fayne. The latest movie reboot returns to the second Nancy Drew book ever published, The Hidden Staircase, reportedly longtime ghostwriter Mildred Wirt Benson’s favorite that was previously adapted for the screen in 1939, with Bonita Granville portraying Drew.

Despite some nods to modern creepy internet culture, it is the old school doesn’t-suffer-dumb-cops-gladly Drew who is on the case in Katt Shea’s Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, which opens nationwide this Friday. That changed in the mid-1980s, when Simon & Shuster updated the Nancy Drew packaging and added a spin-off line that cranked up the romance and high school angst.

The hidden movie review series#

Although the two respective series were written with either girls or boys in mind, there was a lot of crossover readership, because they always primarily focused on some sort of mystery. For traditionalists, Nancy Drew mysteries were the ones with the yellow spines, whereas the Hardy Boys were blue.