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This page was last updated on 4th September 2004. Page launched on 4th September 2004. Site launched on 8th February 2004.
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INTERVIEWS & ARTICLES
It's Child's Play for this Good-Time Gal ShropshireStar.com, UK, 4th March 2004
Molly Gunn (Brittany Murphy) is used to a life of luxury, living up to the legend of her late rock musician father by partying to excess on the Manhattan social scene.
In Uptown Girls (12A), top designers clamour to dress her, the most eligible bachelors are desperate to date her and every day is like a party, revolving around her swanky upper East-side apartment.
The party comes to an abrupt and unexpected halt when the family accountant makes off with Molly's vast inheritance, leaving her penniless with no funds to pay the rent.
She is rudely evicted from her apartment, forced to put up many of her prized possessions for auction (including her late father's priceless guitar collection) and contemplates the unimaginable: getting a paid job for the first time in her life.
With no real qualifications or experience, Molly stands little chance of landing a job that will pay enough to cover the rent on even the most decrepit boxroom in town.
Thankfully, her best friends Ingrid (Marley Shelton) and Huey (Donald Faison) come to her rescue.
They recommend her to feisty A&R executive Roma Schleine (Heather Locklear) and Molly is hired as nanny to Roma's precocious young daughter Ray (Dakota Fanning), who is described as "eight years old going on 40".
Ray has been passed from a succession of nannies and au pairs and has grown wary of trusting people who will invariably disappear from her life.
Understandably, Ray is initially cold and condescending towards Molly but as the two grow close, so they discover in each other a true, faithful friend.
Uptown Girls is shamelessly manipulative, highly implausible and contrives a number of emotional set-pieces with the sole intention of plucking our heart-strings.
Even so, director Boaz Yakin keeps the film the right side of saccharine and plays to his strengths: notably his two leads.
Murphy invests her good-time gal with a cheerful naivete and determination that is adorable and Fanning brings an aching sadness and vulnerability to her precocious moppet who just wants to he loved.
Jesse Spencer (better known as Billy Kennedy from Neighbours) makes an impressive feature film debut as an aspiring singer-songwriter who gets under Molly's skin.
The ending is contrived but that's forgivable: Molly and Ray deserve to be happy.
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