The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

David Frankel

Writers (WGA):

Aline Brosh McKenna (screenplay)
Lauren Weisberger (novel)

Release Date:

30 June 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Hell On Heels.

Plot:

A naive young woman comes to New York and scores a job as the assistant to one of the city's biggest magazine editors, the ruthless and cynical Miranda Priestly.

Plot Keywords:

Magazine | Assistant | Fashion | Friend | Editor

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 25 nominations

Cast

Meryl Streep	...	Miranda Priestly
Anne Hathaway	...	Andy Sachs
Emily Blunt	...	Emily
Stanley Tucci	...	Nigel
Simon Baker	...	Christian Thompson
Adrian Grenier	...	Nate
Tracie Thoms	...	Lily
Rich Sommer	...	Doug
Daniel Sunjata	...	James Holt
David Marshall Grant	...	Richard Sachs
James Naughton	...	Stephen
Tibor Feldman	...	Irv Ravitz
Rebecca Mader	...	Jocelyn
Jimena Hoyos	...	Lucia
Gisele Bündchen	...	Serena

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some sensuality.

Runtime:

109 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

UK:PG | Singapore:PG | Australia:PG | USA:PG-13 (certificate #42358) | Ireland:PG | USA:PG-13 | Norway:A | Hong Kong:IIA | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | Netherlands:AL | Argentina:13 | Malaysia:U | Brazil:Livre | Finland:S | Portugal:M/12 | South Korea:12 | Germany:o.Al. | New Zealand:PG | Sweden:Btl | Iceland:L

Filming Locations:

Musée Galliera - 10 avenue Pierre-1er-de-Serbie, Paris 16, Paris, France

Company:

Fox 2000 Pictures

Trivia:

In the last scene between Miranda and Andy, Andy asks Miranda if the lifestyle that Miranda led wasn't what she wanted. Miranda responds, "Everyone wants this. Everyone wants to be us." The original line was "Everyone wants to be me." However, Meryl Streep did not like this line, finding it too self involved and dramatic. At the table reading of the script, Meryl organically changed the line to "Everyone wants to be us." The line change stuck and was used in the film.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Andy is having dinner with Christian, her makeup looks dark and dramatic. When they leave the restaurant and they are kissing outside a building, her makeup is simple and lighter.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Nate: Good luck.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Barbara Walters Special: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2006 (#31.2)" (2006)

Soundtrack:

Dance Floor (Le D Remix)

Much better than I had been led to believe

I had been told that Merryl Streep is great in this movie but the movie isn't really very good, so I went in with very low expectations. Maybe that was good: I really liked "The Devil Wears Prada" a lot.

Maybe I liked it because of two things I had in common with Andy: first, I have had the experience of starting a new job with only the vaguest idea of what I was supposed to do (and how to do it) and finding that everyone expected me to perform competently, without any training or help, right away. Second, I have had a boss (female) who was so difficult to please and so willing to tell her underlings how stupid they were that several quit without even waiting until they could find other jobs. In other words, I could really relate to Andy's situation. Stuff like that actually does happen in the real world. Perhaps, that is the reason that I was possibly the only person in the theater who was hoping Andy would not make the choice she made.

One thing that Miranda Priestley (Merryl Streep) had going that my Boss From Hell did not was class. It would have been very easy to create Miranda as a monster, but, wisely and skillfully, Merryl Streep allowed her to have a dignity and intelligence that made her seem to be demanding but not sadistic.

Stanley Tucci is superb as Nigel, the ambitious, hard working man who dreams of having a position of power like Miranda's some day.

"The Devil Wears Prada" is a very funny movie that is not as far divorced from the real world as, I believe, the producers of this movie may have thought.