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*Nancy Drew*
Nancy Drew
Genre	Mystery ; Drama; Crime
Based on	Nancy Drew; by Carolyn Keene
Written by	Ami Canaan Mann
Directed by	James Frawley
Starring	Maggie Lawson; Jill Ritchie; Lauren Birkell; Marieh Delfino; Charlie Finn; Heath Freeman; James Avery; Brett Cullen;
Theme music composer	Richard Marvin
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Lawrence Bender ; Kevin Kelly Brown ; James Frawley
Producers	Hans Proppe ; Ami Canaan Mann
Cinematography	James Chressanthis
Editors	Micky Blythe ; Scott Vickrey
Running time	87 minutes
Production companies	Touchstone Television; Bender Brown Productions
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	December 15, 2002

Nancy Drew is a 2002 American television film directed by James Frawley and written by Ami Canaan Mann. It stars Maggie Lawson as teen sleuth Nancy Drew, who heads off to college and finds yet another mystery to solve.^[2] The film first aired on December 15, 2002, on ABC.^[3]^[4]

Plot

Nancy Drew begins college with her two best friends, Bess Marvin and George Fayne, at River Heights University. After the star football player goes into a coma, Nancy investigates, finding a campus-wide conspiracy and a fraternity's drug use.^[4]

Cast

Maggie Lawson as Nancy Drew
Jill Ritchie as Bess Marvin
Lauren Birkell as George Fayne
Marieh Delfino as Christina "Teeny" Timkins
Charlie Finn as Hank Luckman
Heath Freeman as Det. Patrick Daly
James Avery as Prof. Duke Shifflin
Brett Cullen as Carson Drew
Jenny O'Hara as Hannah Gruen
Nick Stabile as Ned Nickerson
Brian White as Franklin "Sweet Money" Sanderson
Kevin Tighe as Coach Jeffries
Sabine Singh as Allison Price
Michelle Morgan as Jaclyn Calberson
Dale Midkiff as Jimbo Mitchell
Hoku as Bitsy
Joanna Canton as Sue

Production

The pilot was ordered by ABC in January 2002, in contention for the 2002-03 television season. Production for the pilot began in Los Angeles on March 11, and was finished within the month.^[5] In May, ABC announced it wouldn't include Nancy Drew on the fall 2002 schedule, instead deciding to air it as a part of The Wonderful World of Walt Disney, to see how it would do for a possible mid-season replacement. In anticipation of a pickup, ABC ordered six additional scripts, and put the actors under contract for a Spring 2003 premiere. Despite this, ABC decided in January 2003 to not pick it up.^[6]^[7]

Lawson was the first to be cast in early February 2002.^[8] Actresses Christine Lakin and Rachel McAdams also auditioned for the title role. The pilot was the first audition for McAdams, who later stated losing the role helped get her a leading role in The Hot Chick.^[9]^[10] Ritchie, Birkell, Delfino, Finn, Freeman, and Cullen were all cast in late February, while Avery was not cast until March.^[5]^[11] The film was dedicated to the original author of the Nancy Drew books, Mildred Wirt Benson. Wirt ghostwrote the series under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene, from 1930 to 1953; she wrote 23 of the first 30 Nancy Drew books. Wirt had died in May 2002.^[3]^[4]

The songs "Analyze", "Fade into You", and "I Tried to Rock You But You Only Roll" were used in the film.^[12]

Broadcast

Originally scheduled to air Sunday, October 20, 2002,^[13] the film aired on ABC on Sunday, December 15, 2002, as a part of The Wonderful World of Disney.^[3]^[4] It was watched by 7.5 million people, placing in third for its time slot.^[1]

Reception

Laura Fries, of Variety, states, "Nancy Drew is off her game. The plucky heroine from the books of Mildred Wirt Benson, aka Caroline Keene, just doesn't have the same relevance she once did, and while ABC's updated version for the Wonderful World of Disney is a slick, earnest effort, it's way out of place."^[14]

Nancy Drew was nominated for a 2003 Prism Award in the category "Movie or Miniseries for Television."^[15]