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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.

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Comedies

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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Takes an extremely obvious comic situation ... and misses the easy laughs by miles.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
08/15/03
Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
Los Angeles Daily News

What Uptown Girls amounts to is two creeps yelling at each other for 90 minutes.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
08/15/03
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
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Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
08/15/03
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

Murphy's performance has a kind of ineffable mischievous innocence about it.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
08/15/03
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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There's nothing wrong with Uptown Girls that not seeing it won't fix.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
08/15/03
Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter
Washington Post

A collection of cliches and test screening results, put together in no particular order.

Full Review Source: Film Blather | comment Comment
08/14/03
Eugene Novikov
Eugene Novikov
Film Blather

Uptown Girls is supposed to be funny and emotionally wrenching, and the film certainly is, but for all the wrong reasons.

Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
08/14/03
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

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.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
08/14/03
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com

An embarrassingly silly exercise that mostly serves as a platform for Brittany Murphy to model a fab wardrobe and glam hairstyles.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
08/14/03
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today

A light, occasionally charming and reasonably well-crafted tale about a transforming female friendship.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
08/14/03
Amy Dawes
Amy Dawes
Variety
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The film is close to a disaster in its remarkably rigid formula.

Full Review Source: San Jose Mercury News | comment Comment
08/14/03
Mike Antonucci
Mike Antonucci
San Jose Mercury News

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.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
08/14/03
Jan Stuart
Jan Stuart
Newsday

[A] standard variation of the princess myth.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
08/14/03
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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When Uptown Girls is released on DVD, its commentary tracks should consist of a single looped phrase: 'We're truly sorry.'

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
08/14/03
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune

A consistently strained effort.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
08/14/03
Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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[A] horribly misguided movie.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
08/14/03
Chuck Wilson
Chuck Wilson
L.A. Weekly

[An] ungainly Manhattan fairy tale.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
08/14/03
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

It's possible that Uptown Girls will supplant Gigli as the summer's biggest joke.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
08/14/03
Philip Wuntch
Philip Wuntch
Dallas Morning News

It'll take more than a spoonful of sugar to make this medicine go down.

Full Review Source: Citysearch | comment Comment
08/14/03
J. C. Farrow
J. C. Farrow
Citysearch

A colorful, creative, deliciously frolicsome romp.

Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | comment Comment
08/14/03
David Sterritt
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor
 
 
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