FILM REVIEW
Uptown Girls
Director: Boaz Yakin
Cast: Brittany Murphy, Dakota
Fanning, Marley Shelton, Heather Locklear
Classification: PG
Running Time: 100 minutes
Opens On: 6 February
2004
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 her accountant steals
Molly's inheritance, 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.
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