They're about to teach each other how to act their age.
Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny to Ray - the precocious, oft-ignored daughter of a music executive - she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.
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- Wuchakon TMDB · Mar 20187/10
Way more than a shallow “chick flick” romcom. RELEASED IN 2003 and directed by Boaz Yakin, "Uptown Girls" is a dramedy with a little romance about Molly (Brittany Murphy), a fun-loving 22 year-old who suddenly loses her inherited riches and is forced to become a nanny to a stoical neat-freak girl, Ray (Dakota Fanning). Heather Locklear plays Ray’s distant mother who’s an exec in the music biz while Jesse Spencer plays a hunky musician who gets signed. Marley Shelton and Donald Faison are on hand as friends of Molly. The first act didn’t do much for me, but at the halfway point something made me bust out laughing and I busted out four more times before it was over. More importantly, the movie is rich with quality mind/spirit food. Both Molly and Ray are broken people who handle their grief in opposite ways. And each has what the other needs to heal and escape their disorder. “Uptown Girls” boldly reveals that “meds” (drugs) cannot heal or deliver a person; the best they can do is help a person cope. In fact, they usually have negative side-effects, mentally and physically. Sadly, six years after the release of the film Murphy ironically died of cardiac arrest due to inadvertent over
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Cast
- Brittany MurphyMolly Gunn
- Dakota FanningRay Schleine
- Marley SheltonIngrid
- Donald FaisonHuey
- Jesse SpencerNeal
- Austin PendletonMr. McConkey
- Heather LocklearRoma Schleine
- Will ToaleBriefs Model
- Marceline HugotNurse
- Pell JamesJulie
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- Boaz YakinDirector
- Julia DahlScreenplay
- Mo OgrodnikScreenplay
- Lisa DavidowitzScreenplay
- Michael BallhausDirector of Photography
- Joel McNeelyOriginal Music Composer
- David RayEditor
- Allison JacobsProducer
- John PenottiProducer
- Fisher StevensProducer
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