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Summary: More Than What's On the Surface
Review: What I expected and what I got from this movie are two totally different things. I was expecting a Legally Blonde knockoff with a precocious little girl. Instead, I got an extremely heart felt movie that's not quite so ditzy as I thought, but actually quite thoughtful and oddly tearjerking. The previews, I felt, were extremely misleading, making the movie look a lot ditzier than it actually is. Molly (Brittany Murphy) is so wrapped up in her own life that she's blindsided when she learns that all her money is gone. What's a girl to do? She ends up becoming the nanny for paranoid little Ray (Dakota Fanning). And of course, they learn from one another. This movie is full of these little sad moments that will no doubt shock anyone who sees this film in an attempt to write it off as a piece of fluff. Perhaps this movie has a bit of fluff, but it's all good. The ending is incredibly sweet and really moving, and will no doubt make you want to own the soundtrack. Full of wit, cute one-liners, and endearing moments, this movie truly is a treasure.
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Summary: Classic and Sweet
Review: This film is a sweet story about an old 9 year old and a young 20 something. They both find themselves in problems that change their lives, one being over looked by her mother and having a sick father. The other, a girl who has her simple, easy-going life leave to South America. The movie is an overall, clasic chick flick. It has a bit of romance, tearful moments, and a charming bonding between girls. The actresses are both wonderful in their roles. Brittany Murphy, who you might know from "Just Married", "Clueless", and "8 Mile", seems like she really is the lost little woman who just needs a little guidence but does soon find her way. And Dakota Fanning, "I Am Sam" and "Cat in the Hat", seems much like the controling, overpowered, little girl but becomes the sweet, understanding little girl. The DVD has some nice extras, deleted scences, Chantal Kreviazuk's "Time" music video, among various other things. The picture is very nice and clear and sound is what can be expected from a movie of this kind. Overall, get this if you need a cry, a laugh, or just to feel good. It will do all three.
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Summary: A sweet movie
Review: It was better than I thought it would be! Besides Dakota Fanning's horrible dance recital at the end, I feel that she did a superb acting job. Without her, I would not have enjoyed the movie nearly as much. If you like sweet, funny, feel good movies, you will probably like this one...but rent it first like I did...Blockbuster is going to hear about the scratched and filthy dvds when I return them on Monday! lol
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Summary: Dakota Shines - But The Movie Overall - Is Not as Bright!
Review: This movie directed by Boaz Yakin (Fresh, Remember The Titans) has a certain charm to it. It was going for the warm fuzzy's and along the way found a real heart for me. Cocky and not-so-bright Britney Murphy (Just Married, 8-Mile) plays a aristocratic well to do teen who suddenly looses what she ahs to find out she needs to get a real job. In her attempt she is befriended by a mother played by Heather Locklear (Looney Toons Back In Action, The First Wives Club) who needs a caretaker - babysitter for her young daughter played by Dakota Fanning (I Am Sam, The Cat In The Hat). The two teach each other a valuable lesson about life. One - Brittany needs to lean how to grow up, the other - Dakota - needs how to learn to have fun. The two are forced to tolerate each other in order to appease the mother. However, in the process of hating each other, they learn a lesion in family friendship and that people are not what they seem to be on the outside. That's the warm fuzzy! Really nice heart - it does get a little slow in parts, but the chemistry of little Dakota with everyone on screen is amazing. You can't help not liking her even after she plays this temperamental little brat. As far as the theatrical experience, a good film for the teens and young adults but it is not really for the really young or middle aged crowd - it does have a syrupy side that may give some a tooth ache. This would be a great DVD to have for the family. Let me know what you think. (11-12-03)
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Summary: Murphy's Law
Review: Uptown Girls is a fairly innocuous, and at times predictable comedy, about two opposites coming together and finding their way. The film is made watchable though, thanks to the chemistry of its female stars, both of them light up the screen and are irresistable to watch--no matter that the material is not. Molly Gunn (Brittany Murphy) is the freespirited daughter of a late rock legend and the toast of the Manhattan social scene, but when her inheritance is stolen, Molly is forced to do something she's never done before - get a job. She becomes nanny to precocious Ray Schleine (Dakota Fanning), an 8 year old, who is wise beyond years. Ray is left emotionally distant from her career minded executive mother Roma (Heather Locklear), she has grown up with a revolving door of nannies and too little stability. Despite feeling all alone in the world, the pair try to make their new arrangement work, each discovering in the other the joys of friendship. Directed by Boaz Yakin tries to make the best film possible, from Julia Dahl, Lisa Davidowitz and Mo Ogrodnik's script. Unfortunately, it's quite easy to forecast the goings on here, and that's a shame. How many riches to rags stories can we see? Thankfully, Fanning avoids becomming either a total brat, or too cute for words. Her Ray avoids all those trappings and Murphy works well with her. The DVD extras are not anything to get excited over, nor are they a total wash either. The bonus material serves its purposes but that's it. The deleted scenes don't really add much to the film, had they made it into the story, it would have seemed overstuffed. Two EPK-style featurettes, "The Lowdown on Uptown" and "Rockin' Style", take you inside the filming, in a typical fashion. A stills gallery, a music video of the song "Time" by Chantal Kreviazuk, from the movie's soundtrack, an ad for said soundtrack, and the theatrical trailer top off the disc. Uptown Girls isn't bad...just suffers from paint by numbers syndrome Makes a solid rental
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Summary: Uptown Girls
Review: I'm a fan of cute, sweet, happy ending movies, you know, the typical "chick flick." However,this one was TOTALLY lame!! The characters, plots, EVERYTHING and EVERYONE were extremely unbelieveable and so superficial. The whole movie was so far from any part of reality, it was almost painful to watch. Don't waste your time or your money.
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Summary: Please eat something!!
Review: Brittany Murphy stars in Uptown Girls. Molly Gunn (Murphy)is a strange woman who becomes a nanny for a girl named Ray (Dakota Fanning) after getting kicked out of her apartment. At one point of the movie, Brittany's charecter was in a diner with a burger and fries next to her, she didn't even look at it, this woman has a eating disorder and it's really obvious and sad. Hollywood have a lot to answer for by stuffing up people's lives with all this image garbage. Anyway, on to the film, it was poorly written, badly acted, boring and pointless, the little girl was cool though, the only good thing about the movie. It tried to teach a moral lesson but with such a shameless (...) Molly around hard to get enjoyment out of it. Rough enough?
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Summary: Uptown Girls
Review: I'm a fan of cute, sweet, happy ending movies, you know, the typical "chick flick." However,this one was TOTALLY lame!! The characters, plots, EVERYTHING and EVERYONE were extremely unbelieveable and so superficial. The whole movie was so far from any part of reality, it was almost painful to watch. Don't waste your time or your money.
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Summary: Entertaining but Somewhat Depressing Too....
Review: I have watched this DVD many times with my daughter who enjoys it. I enjoy it too, but even though the story of Molly Gunn, an heiress to her deceased parents fortune, is likeable, her character is also irritatingly unrealistic. She is like Edie Sedgwick minus the drugged out debauchery. How can someone have so much and have no clue to reality being in the world alone? Someone like this would be extra street smart having to make it with no guidance but then there would be no movie. If you can stand that much, we start on Mollys birthday leaving her pig Moo in her apartment on her carefree dizzy way to her own surprise birthday party. She there experiences love at first sight with the British Singer who entertains at the party and has to have him even though like Morrisey as they say, is happily celibate. She also meets Rae (Dakota Fanning)a charmingly hateful and pre-wizened 8 year old with a Rock Manager Mogul mom, played by Heather Locklear. Molly thinks nothing of the little snob who puts her down very efficiently until escorted back to her table. Molly soon finds herself with the rocker she so had to have, then rejects, then gets desperate when he rejects her back, and what is worse, she is in the dark, with no bills paid and NO money after her "parents guy Bob" embezzles the fortune and leaves her with nothing. Faced with finding employment is a daunting task, especially for a ditzy irresponsible flower child in the wrong decade like Molly. But, she finds a job taking care of, guess who? RAE! How does this all go for Molly and Rae, watch and see. This movie is enjoyable and entertaining. You could definitely see it more than once, but somehow it is mired in a mood of melancholy for a movie that was meant to be mostly light and fun, or is it? I am not sure what the writers, director and producer were thinking. It is a mix of a tearjerker and comedy, which is hard to pull off, yet this does, and does it pretty well. Brittney Murphy is fairly likeable but somewhat irritating as mentioned before, and Dakota Fanning, well there is a softer side that Molly manages to uncover. All in all, a nice family oriented movie, but not exactly a light hearted romp as you would expect. The fault here is many depressing moments leaving a cloud of depression over the entire film. Not a perfect movie, but infinitely watchable regardless.
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Summary: Steal your heart movie...!
Review: I had never seen this movie until yesterday, and its been out on DVD for along time. I really did enjoy this movie alot. The characters in Uptown Girls really tell you the truth about the title of the movie, they are two 'Uptown' rich little girls who were brought together to learn from each other and realize that Molly (Brittany Murphy) and Ray (Dakota Fanning) have gone through the same thing about the same time. Only Molly didn't have anyone at that age and but Ray does now, with Molly. It's a heart warming film that I truely enjoyed to the bone. A little note for those who enjoy watching it over and over for little things to complain about, if you notice throughout the entire movie, Brittany Murphy in every shot is wearing a dress or skirt. Never pants or anything else, the only scene she is, is when she's with Duey watching the "Sheets of Egyptian Cotton" music video. She's in shorts and stretch pants. But then if you notice, she's wearing the same stretch pants underneith her dress in the next scene when she does to Rays house. As the producer Boaz said this movie was mean't to be unrealistic and for those who haven't seen the sneak preview to the interview with the cast about that, I hope you realize that this movie was about being enchanted and fantasized in New York and that if you want to go somewhere to find yourself or your dream, that New York is the place to go. I think though that this movie is a mix of both realism and not, there are people who have problems dealing with death and some more than others try to do the opposite of what Molly does and thats heading downwards. Whereas with her, she's always trying to stay as positive about everything and taking things in stride. I pride myself in things about that and hope that most will see this amazing movie.
"Time" (Chantel Kreviazuk) music video is my all time fave... love and admire the song, couldn't stop listening to it.
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