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Have "Uptown Girls" night out


The movie Uptown Girls is a role-reversal comedy that caters to young girls. It takes you through a journey of life lessons and self-discovery.

The movie stars such actresses as Brittany Murphy, Heather Locklear and Dakota Fanning.

In this movie, Molly Gunn, played by Murphy, is the daughter of a late rock legend and the highlight of the Manhattan social scene.

Her accountant embezzles her inheritance, which she solely lives on now, and leaves her with no money. Molly is forced to do something that she has never done before: find a job and work.

She takes a job as a nanny to a precocious child, Ray Schleine, played by Dakota Fanning.

Ray is an extremely intelligent eight-year-old little girl who acts as if she is going on 40. Emotionally distant from her mother, an executive, 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 a true friend in the other.

On one hand, another moviegoer watched Uptown Girls and said it was a “big let down.”

She said that it was just about a poor little rich girl who had everything she desired but no one to share it with.

“This is definitely a must for an exciting girl’s night out,” said freshman, Lindsay Griffith.

She went and watched this movie with other UTM students in the UC and said, “I really enjoyed watching a movie on campus, it was so convenient for all of us.”

This was her first movie to attend in the UC and she said it gave her “a great first impression to this experience” and that she will “definitely attend future movies here.”

I thought that this movie was a great movie for girls. I would not recommend this movie for a date or for guys to see, but for a group of girls, it is a must.

If you are in the mood for fun, laughter and a movie full of girly attributes, I recommend Uptown Girls.

In all, Uptown Girls is viewed as positive and negative. I guess it is like the old saying goes, “It is all in the eye of the beholder.”