History Film / NancyDrew

* TookALevelInKindness: Inga and Trish act much nicer to Nancy after the party after Nancy uses CPR to save Trish from an allergic reaction, even taking her out shopping to improve her look and ''not'' as a ploy to get close to Ned (whom Inga has a crush on). Towards the end, they happily show Nancy her pictures in the fashion magazine.

* TookALevelInKindness: Inga and Trish act much nicer to Nancy after the party, even taking her out shopping to improve her look and ''not'' as a ploy to get close to Ned. Towards the end, they happily show Nancy her pictures in the fashion magazine.

* YoureNotMyType: Ned is worried Nancy will fall for someone else, telling her had a dream where she forgot about him for "the guy from ''{{Series/Smallville}}''" Her attempt to console him doesn't work.

* YoureNotMyType: Ned is worried Nancy will fall for 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.

* {{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.

* HollywoodLaw: {{Discussed}} by Nancy and 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.

* ChekhovsSkill: Nancy suggests a CPR class to the principal. We are led to believe the payoff was a prank where Inga convinced Corky to pretend to choke during a basketball game, but it actually culminates during the party scene, where 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.

* 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.

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

''Nancy Drew'' is a 2007 film adapting the books about the girl detective. In it, Nancy (Creator/EmmaRoberts) and her father Carson (Creator/TateDonovan) 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 ([[Creator/LauraElenaHarring Laura Harring]]), a murdered movie star who took some secrets of hers to the grave. With the help of her friends Ned Nickerson (Creator/MaxThieriot) and Corky Veinschtein (Creator/JoshFlitter), Nancy will stop at nothing to crack this case.

''Nancy Drew'' is a 2007 film adapting the books about the girl detective. In it, Nancy (Creator/EmmaRoberts) and her father Carson (Creator/TateDonovan) 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 (Creator/MaxThieriot) and Corky Veinschtein (Creator/JoshFlitter), Nancy will stop at nothing to crack this case.

* {{Expy}}: Dehlia Draycott is loosely based on Creator/NatalieWood.

* BumblingDad: Nancy's dad Carson Drew, [[AdaptationalWimp 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.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The apparition of Delia telling Nancy where the revised will is could be explained as simply a dream after falling asleep while watching one of Delia's films, especially since Nancy was asleep at the time... but bear in mind that before then Nancy didn't know if there ''was'' a will to find. From that point on, she does.

* 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.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Apparently the entire school thought it was hilarious for Trish and Ingra to try and trick Nancy into giving CPR to someone who didn't need it.

* 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, where 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.

See ''Film/NancyDrewAndTheHiddenStaircase'' for the ContinuityReboot.

* HideYourPregnancy: InUniverse.[[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.]]