The protagonist in "What Maisie Knew" could have used a little such overparenting.

WSJ: Raising Kids in the City

For several years, Nancy, her husband William Teitler (one of the producers of "What Maisie Knew") and their daughters Lucy and Isabel lived in our building.

WSJ: Raising Kids in the City

"What Maisie Knew, " described as a "contemporary imagining" of a Henry James story, is told from the point of view of Maisie, who is buffeted by her self-involved parents' divorce, especially when her father, played by Steve Coogan, marries her baby sitter (Joanna Vanderham) and her mother takes up with a handsome young bartender (Alexander Skarsgard).

WSJ: Raising Kids in the City