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Uptown Girls (2003)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:5
Rotten:24
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: With two obnoxious lead characters and an uneven screenplay, Uptown Girls fails to charm.
Theatrical Release:Aug 15, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $36,922,190
Synopsis: In Uptown Girls, Molly Gunn (Brittany Murphy) is the toast of the New York social scene. The freewheeling daughter of a late rock legend, Molly is an "it girl" on top of the A-list - designers... [More]
Starring: Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Marley Shelton, Donald Faison
Director: Boaz Yakin
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Reviews for Uptown Girls
Top CriticThough I found Mr. Yakin's direction unexpectedly imaginative, and the script often incongruously subtle, I couldn't get into the spirit of all the whimsy, the reason being the surprising lack of charm in the two leads.
09/26/03
Top CriticCan two over-pampered but fundamentally lonely persons of the blonde female persuasion bond meaningfully with each other while shopping?
08/21/03
Top CriticYakin shuns caricature. His affection for all his feckless characters, even Fanning's narcissistic mom (Heather Locklear), is evident.
08/21/03
Top CriticCombine two mannered performances with a script intent on achieving maximum cuteness, and you've got one wince-inducing sugar rush.
08/21/03
Top CriticGives chick flicks a bad name.
08/21/03
Top CriticLocates Fanning's 'maturity' in a fear of germs that comes off as borderline psychotic, and Murphy's childlike free spirit in her apparent inability to avoid walking into walls.
08/19/03
Top Critic... a disaster.
08/18/03
Top CriticA modern fairytale that loads up big-time on the girly trappings but doesn't give you much in the way of plot or characters or even plain old sense.
08/17/03
Top CriticThere's more than a hint of desperation to Murphy's characterization.
08/15/03
Top CriticA creepy, depressing and leering 'comedy' that's a virtual collection of 'What were they thinking?' moments.
08/15/03
Top CriticThough Murphy is radiant, and her laughs are infectious, her free-spiritedness is thrust in our face like a pointy object in a 3-D movie.
08/15/03
Top CriticWhen Uptown Girls isn't trying to play up its wacky high jinks ... it stoops to the kind of psychological character development films this shallow should really avoid like the plague.
08/15/03
Top CriticDirector Boaz Yakin ... keeps shying from the darker material like a studio-trained racehorse, heading for the safer turf of slapstick and schmaltz.
08/15/03
Top CriticIt's all too, too cute and too, too forced for words.
08/15/03
Top CriticMurphy's performance has a kind of ineffable mischievous innocence about it.
08/15/03
Top CriticThere's nothing wrong with Uptown Girls that not seeing it won't fix.
08/15/03
Top CriticAn embarrassingly silly exercise that mostly serves as a platform for Brittany Murphy to model a fab wardrobe and glam hairstyles.
08/14/03
Top CriticA light, occasionally charming and reasonably well-crafted tale about a transforming female friendship.
08/14/03
Top CriticThe film is close to a disaster in its remarkably rigid formula.
08/14/03
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