'''''Uptown Girls''''' is a 2003 comedy/drama 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 21-year-old living a charmed life as the daughter of a famous rock and roll musician. Dakota Fanning co-stars.
'''''Tagline''''': They're about to teach each other how to act their age.
Plot
Molly Gunn (Brittany Murphy) is a spoiled rock n' roll princess, 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. She keeps cash in the freezer of her Upper West Side apartment, treats her doorman like a personal servant and pays no attention to bills for phone, electricity or pet care.
When her accountant depletes her estate, Molly has to do the unthinkable (for her, at least)...get a job. After a few unsuccessful interviews and a stint at a department store, Molly finally lands a job. She is hired as a nanny for an uptight nine year old girl named Ray (Dakota Fanning) who's often ignored by her busy, music executive mother (Heather Locklear).
Molly and Ray couldn't be anymore different - Molly is an adult but acts like a child, and Ray is a child who acts like an adult. Although they clash at first, they come together and learn to act their age and become best friends in the meantime.
Birthday Party
The movie opens with a party for Molly's 22nd birthday at an exclusive dance club, arranged by her chaste childhood best friend Ingrid and Huey, a producer who is into three-way sex. In the club's ladies room, Molly thinks she's alone and expresses her insecurity over her appearance, whereupon she receives an unexpected rejoinder from Ray, a precocious and dour 8-year-old girl (Dakota Fanning). Ray is equally rude and condescending to Molly and to Huey, who is trying to babysit her for his boss, who "can't keep a nanny ... fired their third one this month today."
A foxy guy
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
