Nancy Drew is a pointless modern version of the popular girls' books about the feisty, small-town sleuth created 75 years ago as the distaff answer to the popular adventures of Tom Swift that the same publishing stable had been bringing out since 1910. In this film, Nancy (the lively Emma Roberts) relocates to Los Angeles with her father and investigates the long-unsolved murder of a movie star in a mansion not unlike that in Sunset Boulevard. Its strongest suit is the art direction.