Where are the good role models?
In the new movie “Nancy Drew,” the heroine (played with style and grace by Emma Roberts) uses and celebrates her intuitive and intellectual abilities as a teen sleuth, and comes to accept the fact she is exceptional, and does not fit in with her high school peers mainly concerned with cliques, clothes and crushes. Yes, it is a lightweight PG film, but it still provides a welcome example of a young woman who values ethics, civility, truth and self-direction; who commands respect and courtesy from adults; enjoys having retro tastes in spite of that helping to keep her an “outsider,” and successfully uses her positive obsessions to solve mysteries. “I liked how square she is,” says director and co-writer Andrew Fleming [in a USA TODAY article: New ‘Nancy Drew’ anything but clueless, By Anthony Breznican, June 13 2007.] “Nancy Drew is on it. She’s focused. She’s alpha,” Fleming says. “She’s what we — or I — aspire to be. She gets the job done and keeps her moral compass at all times.” The
