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Top Movies Eight Below Date Movie The Pink Panther Curious George Final Destination 3 Firewall Freedomland When a Stranger Calls Big Momma's House 2 Nanny McPhee New Releases Curious George Final Destination 3 Firewall The Pink Panther Date Movie Eight Below Freedomland Something New Failure to Launch When a Stranger Calls Top Celebs Reese Witherspoon Brad Pitt Paris Hilton Mariah Carey Lindsay Lohan Scarlett Johansson Phil Collins Britney Spears Angelina Jolie Jodie Marsh	Uptown Girls  Release Date - August 15th, 2003 (wide).  Distributor - MGM  Duration - 1 hr. 34 min.  Type - PG-13 for sexual content and language.  Producer : Allison Jacobs, John Penotti, Fisher Stevens  Director : Boaz Yakin  Starring : Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Heather Locklear, Jesse Spencer, Donald Faison  Synopsis Molly Gunn (Murphy) is the freewheeling 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 (Fanning), an "eight-year-old going on forty." Emotionally distant from her A&R executive mother Roma (Locklear), Ray has grown up with a revolving door of nannies and too little stability. Molly and Ray both feel painfully alone in the world, but as they try to make their new arrangement work, each discovers in the other a true friend.  Critic Reviews Like most Meg Ryan comedies, ''Uptown Girls'' has a heroine who's adorable only because it says so in the script. Molly (Brittany Murphy) is a 22-year-old Manhattan party girl living off the inheritance she received after her mother and rock star father died in a plane crash when she was 8. When her accountant bails with her golden nest egg, Molly must find a job and quell her extravagance. It doesn't help that she lacks a practical bone in her body. She's propped up by the inevitable selfless friends (Marley Shelton, Donald Faison) in such films and gets an unlikely job. Molly will be nanny to Ray (Dakota Fanning), a bratty, neurotic 8-year-old whose dad lies in a coma and whose music exec mom (Heather Locklear) hardly knows her. It's hate at first sight for neatnik Ray and messy Molly. But the film quickly turns to predictable consciousness-raising and sentimental sisterliness. Molly must learn to become a responsible adult, while Ray must lighten up and enjoy being a kid. All this would work better if Molly truly were lovable. Though Murphy is radiant, and her laugh is infectious, her free-spiritedness is thrust in our face like a pointy object in a 3-D movie. She's reckless and exasperating and deserving of each setback she gets. Directed by Boaz Yakin (''Remember the Titans''), ''Girls'' is clumsily photographed, and its score is witlessly perky. In tone it lurches from nutty slapstick to soulful morbidity, and a halfhearted romance between Molly and a musician (Jesse Spencer) is a subplot played up in the ads to draw the date crowd. Loose ends are left dangling, and the paused exclamation, ''Oh . . . my . . . God'' is repeated enough times to qualify as a mantra. Fanning was a bright child star in the tender ''I Am Sam,'' but here she is squandered, playing one-note disdain for so long that her turnabout is unconvincing. Actors should progress along character arcs, not teleport to the other end. By default, the film's most endearing character is Molly's pet pig, Moo. When Molly finds the runty oinker forlornly stranded in a hall after she's evicted from her apartment, he gets the movie's most deserved heart tugs. Those bestowed on Molly and Ray are just a ritual of playing by the book.   For rating reasons : filmrating.com, mpaa.com                                    For Parents : Parentalguide.com
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