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 | Fashion | Assistant | Editor | Friend

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 25 nominations

Cast

Meryl Streep	...	Miranda Priestly
Anne Hathaway	...	Andrea 'Andy' Sachs
Emily Blunt	...	Emily Chalton
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 Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | 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:

The role of "Nigel" was offered to Javier Cámara but he didn't accept it.

Goofs:

Factual errors: At 39:41 of the film, Andy is seen entering the Spring Street 6 train (subway) uptown on a train that says downtown only. Immediately after this in the same sequence she is exiting the 51 Street 6 train downtown stop. This would have been impossible on two fronts, since she would not be able to get uptown from Spring Street to 51st on a downtown train and furthermore surely would not have exited at the downtown stop at 51st street if coming from Spring.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Nate: Good luck.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Ugly Betty: Fake Plastic Snow (#1.10)" (2006)

Soundtrack:

Suddenly I See

Better for Teens than Adults, the Devil Still Pleases

With dialog that absolutely crackles, "The Devil Wears Prada" is bound to please most audiences but will primarily appeal to the MTV generation, I suspect. When all is said and done, it's your typical fish-out-of-water, bright-lights-big-city fable, just dressed up all purdy.

Or, put another way, it's essentially "The Princess Diaries" with much, much, muuuuuuuuuch better dialog and a slightly more sophisticated and dramatic story arc.

So while older audiences may feel the film is a bit formulaic, the hysterical, but occasional cruel, one-liners and zingers hurled at Anne Hathaway's Andy are sure to keep them entertained. Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt get most of the barbs, and Blunt in particular is fantastic in the film.

Tucci and Meryl Streep, however, get to make the most provocative and stirring speeches in the film, and they deliver. Hathaway capably carried the movie, perhaps overacting, but she makes it work. Streep proves again that she's a gifted comedian. Emily Blunt, as Emily, is pitch perfect, and her performance here gives beautiful irony to her given name.

The film is just too long, however, primarily because the director feels obliged to explain everything -- every plot point is rendered obviously and painfully clear, and nothing left open for interpretation. That said, we're spared the "perfect ending" and left with a heroine who can truly stand on her own two feet, and in any shoes she might desire.