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.

Molly falls for singer Neal Fox when he plays at her birthday party, thrown by her best friends Huey and Ingrid.

Although she enjoys ballet, Ray refuses to freestyle and often quotes Mikhail Baryshnikov: "Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun."

She redesigns it to fix the damage, but Neal breaks up with Molly when he sees it, insisting he has to focus on his music career and does not have time for her flightiness.

At the wake for Ray's father, Molly meets other musicians who ask her to design their clothes after seeing Neal's jacket in his video.

She is surprised when Ray dances freestyle to Neal singing "Molly Smiles", a song written for her by her father when she was a child.

Additionally, Brian Friedman, Lucy Saroyan, Nas, Carmen Electra, Mark McGrath, Dave Navarro, and Duncan Sheik also appear as celebrity guests during a funeral scene.

[2][3] On Rotten Tomatoes, 13% of 112 reviews are positive and the consensus states: "With two obnoxious lead characters and an uneven screenplay, Uptown Girls fails to charm.

"[5] Stephen Holden of The New York Times criticized the film's plot, writing: "In this standard variation of the princess myth, it takes a humbling fall from grace for Molly to gain a smidgen of soul and a glimpse of happily ever after.