Uptown Girls

Uptown Girls
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBoaz Yakin
Screenplay by
  • Julia Dahl
  • Mo Ogrodnik
  • Lisa Davidowitz
Story byAllison Jacobs
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyMichael Ballhaus
Edited byDavid Ray
Music byJoel McNeely
Production
company
GreeneStreet Films
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer (United States)
20th Century Fox (International)
Release date
  • August 15, 2003 (2003-08-15) (U.S.)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$20 million
Box office$44.6 million[1]

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 the naive 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 in Manhattan, New York.

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