Takes an extremely obvious comic situation ... and misses the easy laughs by miles.
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... 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 want to dress her, the most eligible bachelors want to date her, and her birthday bash is one of the hottest tickets in town. Her life is a never-ending party. But when Molly's inheritance is stolen by her accountant, the party comes to an abrupt end. Molly is forced to do something she's never done before - get a job. With the help of her best friend Ingrid (Marley Shelton) and A&R scout pal Huey (Donald Faison), Molly lands a position as nanny to the daughter of high-powered music executive Roma Schleine (Heather Locklear). Molly's new charge is Ray Schleine (Dakota Fanning), a precocious, uptight 8-year-old "going on 40" who's obsessed with germs and lives her life as perfectly as possible. Emotionally distant from her mother, Ray has grown up with a revolving door of nannies and too little stability, so she tries to control everything she can. Molly has never needed to be a responsible adult. Ray has taken the weight of the world on her young shoulders. They're about to teach each other how to act their age. MGM Pictures presents a Greenstreet Films production of Uptown Girls, starring Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Marley Shelton, Donald Faison, and Heather Locklear. Directed by Boaz Yakin, the screenplay was written by Julia Dahl and Mo Ogrodnik and Lisa Davidowitz from a story by Allison Jacobs. Uptown Girls was produced by John Penotti, Fisher Stevens and Allison Jacobs, with Joe Caracciolo, Jr., Tim Williams, and Boaz Yakin as executive producers. The production team includes director of photography Michael Ballhaus, production designer Kalina Ivanov, editor David Ray, costume designer Sarah Edwards, music supervisor Maureen Crowe, and composer Joel McNeely. [More]
Starring: Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Marley Shelton, Donald Faison
Starring: Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Marley Shelton, Donald Faison, Heather Locklear
Director: Boaz Yakin
Director: Boaz Yakin
Screenwriter: Mo Ogrodnik, Julia Dahl, Lisa Davidowitz
Story: Allison Jacobs
Producer: John Penotti, Fisher Stevens, Allison Jacobs
Composer: Joel McNeely
Studio: MGM/UA
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Reviews for Uptown Girls
What Uptown Girls amounts to is two creeps yelling at each other for 90 minutes.
Murphy's performance has a kind of ineffable mischievous innocence about it.
There's nothing wrong with Uptown Girls that not seeing it won't fix.
A collection of cliches and test screening results, put together in no particular order.
Uptown Girls is supposed to be funny and emotionally wrenching, and the film certainly is, but for all the wrong reasons.
For a comedy, it's surprisingly laugh-free and for an oh-so-message-laden tale of spoiled-gal redemption, it's irritatingly sincerity-free.
An embarrassingly silly exercise that mostly serves as a platform for Brittany Murphy to model a fab wardrobe and glam hairstyles.
A light, occasionally charming and reasonably well-crafted tale about a transforming female friendship.
Uptown Girls lacks the urban specificity that helped to make The World of Henry Orient such an uptown-girl classic, but it works up a sentimental tug that should moisten the eyes of many a moppet and mom.
When Uptown Girls is released on DVD, its commentary tracks should consist of a single looped phrase: 'We're truly sorry.'
It's possible that Uptown Girls will supplant Gigli as the summer's biggest joke.
It'll take more than a spoonful of sugar to make this medicine go down.
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