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For the Billy Joel song, see Uptown Girl.
Uptown Girls is a 2003 comedy directed by Boaz Yakin and adapted from the story by Allison Jacobs into screenplay by Julia Dahl, Mo Ogrodnik and Lisa Davidowitz. It stars Brittany Murphy as a 22-year-old living a charmed life as the daughter of a famous rock and roll musician. Dakota Fanning stars. [edit] Plot
Molly Gunn (Brittany Murphy) is a spoiled rock n' roll girl, living off the ample trust fund of her late rock legend father. Molly is carefree and fun-spirited but also can be irresponsible and immature, having no concept of money or the need to work for it. Molly instantly falls for singer Neal Fox. Huey says Neal is celibate for the sake of his musical career, and Ingrid also tries to discourage her, but Molly sees Neal as a "rock-and-roll-poet-sex god" and begins to pursue him. She proves she's Tommy Gunn's daughter by showing Neal her father's guitar collection, 16 electric and 1 acoustic on which he wrote the classic "Molly Smiles". The song is too poignant for Molly to let Neal sing it to her, because her parents died on the way back from the Budokan concert which premiered it. Neal stays the night, breaking his vow to not have romantic relationships his first year. Feeling smothered by Molly's attention and objecting to the chaos of her "looking-glass" world, he gets ready to go home. Ingrid comes over and scolds Molly for her filthy apartment. Ingrid tries to call Molly's accountant, Bob, to get the gas and electricity restored (Molly ignored the final notices), but the phone is out. Later, attorney Feldman explains that Bob milked her estate, even borrowing against her father's royalties, and advises Molly to get a job. Molly applies at the store where Ingrid works, taking advantage of the employee discount to buy 900 thread count Egyptian cotton sheets for $1300. She spends all night at Neal's apartment, then gets fired when she's found the next morning asleep on a store display. Huey comes to the rescue and attempts to kill two birds with one stone by getting Molly a job with his own boss, Roma (Heather Locklear). Molly is hired as a nanny for Roma's daughter, Ray (Dakota Fanning). Ray is an uptight eight-year-old girl who's often ignored by her busy, music executive mother. When Ray finds out at the last moment that Molly is her new nanny, she is less than thrilled. In Ray's luxurious but spare home (on Fifth Avenue, directly across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art), she encounters an impersonal doctor and nurse caring for a man in a coma. Ray shuts Molly out of her private life, refusing to tell her that the man is her father.The relationship goes downhill from there. Ray actually calls her new nanny a "tree-loving hippie." Unable to take Ray any longer, Molly quits her job. Molly then finds she's been locked out, due to nonpayment of rent and having a pig in her pigpen of an apartment. Still barefoot, she tries to visit Neal later that night, but he ignores the door buzzer. The next day, Ingrid invites her to live with her, but she brings way too much stuff, so Ingrid advises Molly to downsize and find her center. She also insists Molly pay half the rent. Molly drops in on Ray, begging for her nanny job back, and is accepted "on probation." Ray defends her refusal to freestyle dance with a Mikhail Baryshnikov quote: "Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun." This conversation ends in another quarrel, and Ray gives Molly the finger. Molly makes her "take it back" and then gives her "a surprise", the gift of her pet pig, Muu. Molly tries to adjust to life. Unfortunately, Ingrid and Molly have a falling out, and Molly moves in with Huey. On one occasion, Molly tries to take Ray to Coney Island. But they arrive a week before the seasons starts and have to cancel their trip, much to Ray's hidden disappointment. Later on, Molly tells Ray about the time her parents died and says that she ran away to Coney Island. The only ride she was allowed to get on by herself was the Tea Cups. Molly tells Ray that she was right about what she had said earlier: that she is afraid. She cries in Ray's arms. The next morning, she discovers Neal at the apartment, only to learn that he spent the night with Roma. Hurt, she leaves the apartment, runs to the park, and when she finds herself surrounded by people with relations much better than the ones in her life, she jumps into a park pond, which turns out to be filled with sewage and is barely waist-deep. She winds up at Ray's with a high fever. Molly convinces Ray to begin visiting her father. While watching Neal's new music video (with him wearing the jacket Molly had destroyed and remade--and the sheets she had given him, which started off his first hit) they receive the news that Ray's father has died. When Molly goes to comfort Ray, Ray sends Molly to Roma. Roma gives her a severance check, but Molly says she won't leave without an explanation. Roma says she is respecting her daughter's wishes and that Ray never wants to see her again. This prompts Molly to go on a rant about how Roma knows nothing about her daughter and needs to treat her as a child, not a grown-up. Afterward, Molly runs into Neal, and he wants her back. But Molly tells him how she can't help him every time and that he needs to think about someone other than himself. Molly then sells her fathers collection of guitars and buys her own apartment to move into, finally wanting to stand on her own two feet once and for all. While she shows Huey around her very small apartment, Molly gets a call from Roma, who says that Ray didn't come home from school. Molly guesses where Ray has gone and hightails it to Coney Island. She finds Ray on the Tea Cup ride and joins her. After that, Ray gets sick from all the spinning and unleashes all her rage and anger by slapping. Molly lightly slaps her back. Ray starts to punch Molly's stomach, but the scene ends with her clutching Molly and sobbing. At the wake, Molly and Ingrid reconcile, and Molly goes to see Ray. Ray offers Molly her job back, but she declines, saying that they will be friends instead. Ray says that grown-ups never stay friends with kids, but Molly says that she doesn't see any in the room. Smiling, Ray says she does. Molly decides to go to fashion design school, re-quoting Baryshnikov. She goes to Ray's final dance recital and see Neal there, who performs "Molly Smiles." In disbelief, she watches as the girls walk onstage, each carrying one of her father's guitars. Ray comes out last and dances, incorporating moves she had seen Molly do, as the song and dance are dedicated to her. The crowd cheers, and Molly is overjoyed. The movie ends with Ray stating that all stories have an ending, but in life, every ending is just a new beginning. [edit] Cast
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