Uptown Girls

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Summary: Uptown Girls
Review: Uptown Girls DVD ~ Brittany Murphy is a sweet, innocent and funny comedy. It won't win any oscar statues for its dialogue. But I liked it still...

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Summary: Great Everything In One Movie!
Review: This movie was great! It had a little bit of everything in it!!! It had romance, comedy, drama, and a life lesson in it. I am 13 and watched it with my 39 year old mom and we both loved it! It is the best movie EVER. My dad didn't like it, but he doesn't like chick flicks! LOL! <br />THIS MOVIE IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: Terrible movie! Dakota is very annoying.
Review: They should ban kids from acting in movies, and writing movie reviews too. Who actually goes to see a movie because some annoying little girl was good in some other movie? Dakota whoever ruined the movie Man on Fire.

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Summary: It`s good
Review: Although the plot has been done often before , what made this movie great was the fantastic music-worth getting the soundtrack!, and the acting by the two leading ladies , ditzy but cute and sexy Brittany Murphy and the very appealing , shining child star Dakota Fanning , who always manages to touch the hearts of viewers in every movie she appears in .

The movie comes off as funny , entertaining and touching.

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Summary: Not the best...yet not the worst...
Review: I did not like this movie. I felt it was a dry movie and was a waste of talent and time. I usually like movies with Britney Murphey but this is not one of them. The plot was short and altough you can tell there is bonding between Fanning and Murphy there is no real click in the movie. Fanning plays Ray who is spoiled and loses nannys fast, Murphey plays Molly who is rich but soon will learn she has to get a job. Together they will learn life lessons and help each other grow but it just doesn't tug at the heart strings. Not a movie I would recommend.

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Summary: Terrible...
Review: When Uptown Girls came out in theaters, I was dragged to see it by two of my friends. I literally fell asleep during this movie (and don't say, "Oh, you fell asleep 'cause you saw a late show," because we saw a one-in-the-afternoon show). I, personally, think Uptown Girls is one of the worst movies ever. And the spinning--Oh, the spinning! What was up with that??
This is basically a movie about a rich woman (Brittany Murphy) who is forced to find a job when an accountant takes her money away. She ends up being the nanny for a girl (Dakota Fanning) who hasn't got an ounce of kid in her. Blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, yadda... If I remember correctly, the movie ends with the kid doing a ballet recital with her nanny's dad's old guitars (which the nanny had to sell to make some money). So, yeah...
I hated this movie and do not recommend it to anyone. This is one movie I would not even wish on my worst enemy...

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Summary: Not What You Expect-
Review: In my opinon this movie is one of the most boring, and horribly written movies I've ever seen and I own 150 DVDs and go to the movie theater often. When, I saw the commericial for the film I had high hopes it looked like the classic coming of age-- learning from someone else chick flick. I made the mistake of buying the DVD before renting( I won't make that mistake again).

The storyline is horrible-- in the movie Fanning's father is in a coma in the living room and Murphy has a pet pig that runs rampant around her apartment. Perhaps, an over-dramatized storyline is the reason why this movie is such a failure-- going to Coney Island and having it closed, or Fanning's runaway incident after the death of her comatose father or Fanning's mother's sleepovers while her father is in the living deliever a less than great movie.

Murphy is horrible in this film and delievers the worst performance of her career as the little girl who never grew up-- [...]. And it looks like Murphy is coming off a heroin high throughout the movie. Fanning however, does a wonderful job as the eccentric little girl who has grown up before her years-- but she does not manage to salvage what is one of the worst films I've ever seen and the worst film of it's year(I believe it won that award in fact).

You'll find yourself straining to stay awake--and find this movie should be used for torturing terrorist suspects. All in all don't make the same mistake I did- rent before you buy.

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Summary: touching!
Review: I wanted to see this movie after the previews, then I kind of forgot about it. I recently saw it and picked it up, the price was a big seller.

All in all, it was a good movie.

This movie seems the be the kind of role that I've come to expect from Brittany Murphy: sweet, but kind of ditzy. (See "Just Married")

Dakota Fanning was good, but this definitely didn't compare to her performance in "I Am Sam"; however, I thought that she did a great job in the movie.

The "Molly Smiles" part at the end of the movie was probably it's brightest moment. Another part that I took notice of: when Molly tells Neil that he has to give because she's got nothing let to give him. Wow!

It's a good movie, and it does have it's endearing moments.

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Summary: Is Brittany Murphy the new Sandra Bullock?
Review: She has the similar ditzy, but loveable quality about her, that is one of the more endearing qualities about Sandra Bullock. She acts goofy, but she's very smart.

This is an OK movie, not great, but not bad either, the ending sums it all up perfectly, and redeems the movie a little better. I found Dakota Fanning's character extremely annoying, health conscious, shows signs of OCD and precocious! She gets better towards the end of the movie. (She comes across in the extras as having a very old head on young shoulders, which I suppose is to be expected in that business. You do wanna slap at times!) Also Jesse Spencer's accent, is it Australian, or is it English? (Hasn't he grown up since Billy Kennedy in Neighbours? Er, not really!) Brittany's best friends in the movie, aren't really best friends at all, and their characters are not very well developed.

Brittany Murphy plays these characters very well, that she's done in most of her movies, and you can quite imagine that she doesn't have struggle, as the characters are pretty much her! One of her roles that aren't 'her' so to speak is Daisy in Girl, Interrupted. She's apparently really different in Clueless, but I've never seen that!

You'd be forgiven for mistaking the fact this movie is all about a romance between Jesse's & Brittany's characters. In fact, he has very little to do with her, apart from a couple of scenes. There's a lot more to their 'relationship' that was cut, and is featured in the deleted scenes, including some dodgy looking bedroom scenes.

Everything about this film screamed COMEDY. The DVD cover. The trailer (swinging door!). The leading lady. The title. The tagline 'They're about to teach each other how to act their age'. In fact, it's not, it tries to be, but it also has some serious and sad moments thrown in, that will throw you, as to what the movie is trying to be.

The extras are your usual, bog standard ones, although we get an interesting look into how they got the clothes & everything, and how they avoided sticking Brittany in trousers or denim! Interesting! The rest of the extras are: deleted scenes (you find out that Brittany & Jesse's characters relationship was based purely on the S word, which Amazon won't allow me to say!); "The Lowdown on Uptown" - featurette; "Rockin' Style" - featurette; video stills gallery; and "Time" music video with Chantal Kreviazuk - another one hit wonder, who will never go much further than having her video and song on this DVD. I'll be very surprised anyway.

This film is extremely sad, so get the tissues out for the end! As I already said the ending redeems the film, but there are plenty of tedious moments, and pointless scenes just thrown in. But it is a good film, about friendship, rather than your typical rom-com. Just don't expect to laugh.