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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... 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
Murphy hasn't adjusted her expressions to her newly emaciated appearance, which makes her attempts to be twinkly and adorable a little grotesque.
Or maybe the film is so fun because we actually get to see Dakota Fanning slap the living **** out of Brittany Murphy at Coney Island.
It may be junk food with high sugar levels, but the inspired teaming of rising young actress Brittany Murphy and precocious tot Dakota Fanning makes you forget those hazardous sweeteners.
...obvious, pandering, prat-falling silliness that gets about a 20% return on its talent investment
An utterly vacuous bit of fluff...one of those clumsy concoctions in which every element rings false and all the seams show.
(Brittany Murphy)is capable of so much more than becoming another Reese Witherspoon, wasting her talents for a fat paycheck.
The movie turns Fanning into a line-spewing automaton rather than a real human being.
Can two lonely hearts come together as one, rendering them Best Friends? I don’t care, and neither should you.
Between this and I Am Sam, someone should call protective services on behalf of young Fanning.
the audience is left with nothing else to do but give a collective yawn of impatient indifference
I'm a fan of both Murphy and Fanning; but this film might be one they'll leave off their resumes.
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