Uptown Girls is a 2003 teen comedy film directed by Boaz Yakin and adapted from the story by Allison Jacobs into screenplay by Julia Dahl, Mo Ogrodnik and Lisa Davidowitz. It starred Brittany Murphy as a 22-year-old living a charmed life as the daughter of a famous rock and roll musician. Dakota Fanning, Heather Locklear, Marley Shelton, Donald Faison and Jesse Spencer also star. Molly Gunn is a carefree and fun-spirited girl, living like a princess in a fairy tale. Her father was a popular rock-and-roll guitar player, who died in a plane crash with Molly's mother when she was a little girl.... On her birthday in a nightclub, she meets Larraine "Ray" Schleine , a hypochondriac and uptight young girl in a bathroom. Ray turns out to be the daughter of Roma Schleine , a well-known record company owner. There she also meets an ambitious Australian singer Neal , who is trying to get Roma to sign him a record deal. Molly immediately falls for him and invites him to her apartment after the party. When at her apartment, Molly shows an amazed Neal the collection of guitars that her father left behind when he died.
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| Release date: | August 15, 2003 |
| Directed by: | Boaz Yakin |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 92 Minutes |
| Producer: | Fisher Stevens, Allison Jacobs, John Penotti |
| Editor: | David Ray |
| Music by: | Joel McNeely |
| Cinematography: | Michael Ballhaus |
| Screenplay by: | Julia Dahl, Mo Ogrodnik, Lisa Davidowitz |
| Estimated budget: | $20,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |