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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 7777
Released: January 6, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Brittany Murphy (don't Say a Word) and Dakota Fanning (I Am Sam) shine brighter than all the lights of Manhattan in this delightful New York fairy tale. Co-starring Marley Shelton (Never Been Kissed), Donald Faison ("Scrubs") and Heather Locklear ("Spin City"), Uptown Girls will make you laugh, cry and laugh again! Molly (Murphy) is a partying rock 'n' roll princess whose money just ran out. Ray (Fanning) is a fussy nine-year-old girl whose last nanny just ran out. Only Ray's way-too-busy mom (Locklear) could think that hiring Molly would be the perfect setup for both girls. But as this unlikely pair faces everything from control issues (Ray's, of course) to temper tantrums (Molly's, of course), they discover that sometimes your best friend can come from the place you least expect!
Description of Uptown Girls:
Brittany Murphy uses her ditzy/sexy combination to maximum effect in Uptown Girls. Molly Gunn (Murphy) is an heiress living off the estate of her dead rock star father--until an unscrupulous accountant embezzles everything and Molly has to get a job. After a failed attempt at retail work, Molly finds herself as the nanny for a prematurely humorless and rigid little girl named Ray (Dakota Fanning, I Am Sam), whose music mogul mother Roma (Heather Locklear) hardly ever sees her. Meanwhile, Molly woos an English musician who's trying to get a record contract from Roma. Unsurprisingly, Ray teaches Molly to take some responsibility for herself, while Molly gives Ray the opportunity to become the child she is--but despite the formulaic quality of the story, the two actresses play off each other well, and something unexpectedly touching emerges. Also featuring Marley Shelton (Sugar & Spice). --Bret Fetzer
Uptown Girls Reviews:
Pure schmaltz and it works 
2009-10-30 - Brittany Murphy is the indulged orphan daughter of a 70s or 80s rock star who died in an accident with his wife. An accountant steals all her money and suddenly this unskilled party girl needs to get a job. She gets one at last as nanny to Dakota Fanning, a stern nine year old who behaves as if she were a ninety year old spinster. Brittany and Dakota go through the contest of wills stuff; Brittany falls for an up and coming rock 'n roller (actually more a balladeer); girl meets boy, girl loses boy, boy sleeps with girl's employer - you get the picture. Actually the movie holds together only because everyone knows everyone else from being the music business.
The movie is pure schmaltz. The storyline is weak. But even so, the director builds the story between Brittany and Dakota and it ends as a real coming of age and girl story. Not many dry eyes in the house at the end of this one. Not art - just fun.
Jerry
Uptown Girls 
2009-05-29 - Never received the product. Supplier said it must have been lost in the mail and didn't have any more. Supplier is to be sending two substitutes - haven't received them as of this date.
Great movie, Good condition
2009-03-13 - Couldn't find this movie anywhere else! Shipped fast & great price! and in good condition
POLOS OPUESTOS TERMINAN NECESITANDOSE
2009-01-31 - Es la verdad...tu nunca puedes saber de donde te aparecera esa persona que se convertira en tu mejor apoyo y tu amigo(a) mas fiel; es la moraleja que esta muy divertida pero audaz comedia nos deja, con una Brittany Murphy haciendo gala tanto de su sensualidad como de su hilarante sentido del humor, con un personaje atolondrado, infantil y loco, que al final aprende a madurar y a ser mas una mujer adulta; y una Dakota Fanning muy seria, intransigente y super estricta que aprende a ser una niña y a valorar su niñez...ideal pelicula para todo el que busca identificar la amistad verdadera.
Gagtown Movie 
2008-10-25 - The problem with films like this is that the directors and writers don't trust the skills of their actors. They're calling Murphy the next Lucy but they force her into contrived situations that scream insincerity! Dakota is one of the most gifted and natural actors working today but here they spoon feed "precocious" lines into her that even she must have choked on for a paycheck. Watch any mature film of hers next to this one and you'll probably gag yourself.
Unless you thrive on insipid fluff and happy pap, I'd stay clear of this one for sure.
