A weird, unsuccessful and by all accounts unreasoned blend of styles [that] seems shot and edited together by two entirely different people.
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08/18/03
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Uptown Girls (2003)
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Reviews Counted:106
Fresh:14
Rotten:92
Average Rating:3.8/10
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
... a disaster.
08/18/03
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08/18/03
Cute little girl playing dress-up (and Dakota wasn't bad either) - this may not be classic cinema, but it fits nicely into the guilty pleasure category.
08/17/03
None of it is handled with any emotional believability or grace.
08/17/03
A 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 CriticThe sort of film that shuffles along sleepily, dazedly, barely aware of what it's doing and hardly caring whether the audience is still following it or not.
08/17/03
Brittany Murphy and Dakota Fanning make for a winning combination, and their characters' sometimes dark journeys do not always take the most obvious route to the inevitable happy ending.
08/16/03
The film has a weird foot fetish. The part where she was barefoot on the city streets actually grossed me out. Now she’s going to put those feet in her bed with all the city dirt all over them. Ewww.
08/16/03
You’re going to forget this one as soon as you finish watching. And if you don’t, it will probably be because you want to complain about how uninspired and unoriginal it is.
08/16/03
Entirely unoriginal and unbelievably predictable, but director Boaz Yakin knows how to create Kodak moments for the crowd that desires such fare.
08/16/03
Brittany Murphy pulls off a few slapstick sight gags here, but nothing to compare with her hilarious pratfalls in 'Just Married.'
08/15/03
The turn from frothy comedy to offputting pathos would be a jarring tone shift, if the movie had any consistent tone at the outset.
08/15/03
Brittany Murphy's flighty, foolish trust-fund princess in Manhattan vies for the honor of the most annoying screen character of the year.
08/15/03
Unfortunately, the emotionally resonant moments between Murphy and Fanning are few and far between.
08/15/03
You can snicker and enjoy all at once.
08/15/03
Everything has a blurry, much-edited quality, and the story lines don't mesh.
08/15/03
There's more than a hint of desperation to Murphy's characterization.
08/15/03
It's excruciating, a film of forced humor and fake, grating sentimentality, featuring two lead performances that elicit neither affection nor empathy.
08/15/03
A saccharine and shamelessly manipulative piece of fluff.
08/15/03
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