Uptown Girls
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| Directed by | Boaz Yakin |
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| Story by | Allison Jacobs |
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| Cinematography | Michael Ballhaus |
| Edited by | David Ray |
| Music by | Joel McNeely |
Production companies | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer GreeneStreet Films |
| Distributed by | MGM Distribution Co. (United States and Canada) 20th Century Fox (International) |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $30 million |
| Box office | $44.6 million |
Uptown Girls is a 2003 American comedy drama film directed by Boaz Yakin and starring Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Heather Locklear, Marley Shelton, Donald Faison, and Jesse Spencer. Adapted by screenwriters Julia Dahl, Mo Ogrodnik and Lisa Davidowitz from a story by Allison Jacobs, it focuses on Molly Gunn (Murphy), the naïve daughter of a famous rock musician who, after learning her inheritance has been embezzled, finds herself employed as a nanny for a precocious hypochondriac girl named Ray (Fanning) in Manhattan, New York.
Initially panned, the film later gained a more positive reception and has been called a 2000s classic.