Meryl Streep plays the devil in the form of Miranda, tyrant of the fashion magazine Runway.
Anne Hathaway plays the small town girl Andrea, with good sense and moral values to boot.
Stanley Tucci plays Nigel the talented fashion editor for the magazine.
The plot is simple enough, Andrea comes to New York fresh from graduation at Northwestern University. The mid western girl obtains a job as an assistant to the notoriously demending Miranda. At firsts the job is overwhelming for the simple girl but Nigel convinces her to embrace the industry and Andrea is off to the races. Before long Andrea has undergone a transformation into a beautiful cosmopolitan and wins over the confidence of Miranda. Eventually the morally corrupt Miranda is seen as such by the self controlled Andrea, she chucks the career as an assistant and finally gets a job as the investigative journalist she always wanted to be.
Score 23 of 50
Surprising, I enjoyed this movie, soon enough it will be on TBS, scheduled right after Pretty Woman and Miss Congeniality. Surprising yes, but also forgettable.
- Character Development 5 out of 10. Miranda is is the same throughout, but that was really the point anyway. Andrea does transform for from simple country girl to cosmopolitan and returns to her sensible self.
- Acting 7 out of 10. Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci are skilled actors that are always enjoyable to watch. Every time I even think of Kramer vs. Kramer I get pissed off at her. Anne Hathaway, can't make up my mind, have seen her in a couple of movies and she seem like the same girl, kind of a naive Sela Ward.
- Photography, cinematography 2 of 10. For a movie about fashion there wasn't even much of that.
- Writing, script 4 out of 10. Very entertaining, and predictable.
- Concept 5 out of 10. This is supposed to be based on real life, no special credit for that.
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