The Devil Wears Prada
Hell on Heels
In the dizzying world of New York fashion, where size zero is the new 2, six is the new 8, and a bad hair day can end a career, Runway Magazine is the Holy Grail. Overseen with a finely manicured fist by Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) – the most powerful woman in fashion – Runway is a fearsome gauntlet for anyone who wants to make it in the industry. To make Runway the fashion bible of New York and therefore the world, Miranda has let nothing stand in her way…including a long line of assistants that didn’t make the cut. It’s a job no self-respecting person can survive, yet it’s an opportunity a million young women in New York would kill for.
A stint as Miranda’s assistant could blast open the doors for recent college graduate, Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway). More college drab than haute couture, she stands alone among the small army of “Clackers” on staff at Runway – super slim fashion divas checking their stilettos down the halls of the magazine’s Manhattan headquarters. But when Andy comes in for the job, it dawn on her that making it in this industry will take more than drive and determination.
And her ultimate test stands before her in head-to-toe Prada.
In Her Shoes
Friends. Rivals. Sisters.
One is a party girl who steals, lies and leeches off anyone she can. She believes that her looks will get her through anything, but her idea of sex is a drunken fumble in a bathroom during a high school reunion during which even the remotest hint of romance is demolished when she throws up. The other is a lawyer with low self-esteem and an ordered life which, when it includes a man, is something that she confesses, “does not usually happen to her”. At the moment, however, she has found herself in bed with her boss, Jim (Richard Burgi) and she likes him a lot.
Maggie and Rose Feller (Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette) are sisters who could not be more unalike. When their differences finally push them apart they ultimately discover – through a grandmother (Shirley MacLaine) whose existence has been kept secret from them by their father (Ken Howard) – that they are incomplete without each other.
The Family Stone
Feel the love.
Holiday gatherings give screenwriters ideal circumstances in which to portray the comic and/or dramatic interaction within large families when they come together for one big special occasion. It’s even better if that family is eccentric or dysfunctional – and better still when an outsider is introduced into the group and quickly realises that he or she is way out of sync with this curious company.
The Family Stone provides the kind of comic situation that delivers on all counts. The Stones are a bohemian New England family who unite for the Christmas season and are thrown into turmoil when the eldest son, Everett (Dermot Mulroney), comes home from Manhattan with his girlfriend, Meredith Morton (Sarah Jessica Parker), a tightly wound, high strung, immaculately groomed career woman whose controlling, rigid personality brings awkwardness, confusions and hostility to the Stone household.
At the heart of the family is its outspoken, strong-willed matriarch, Sybil (Diane Keaton) whose husband, Kelly (Craig T Nelson) is an offbeat, laid back college professor. Everett’s brother, Ben (Luke Wilson) is an unpredictable, sometimes mischievous film editor who lives on the West Coast. Amy (Rachel McAdams), the guys’ sister, has an honesty that borders on meanness and she displays the most open hostility toward Meredith. Completing the clan are two other siblings, Susannah (Elizabeth Reaser) and Thad (Ty Giordano), the youngest son who is both deaf and gay.
Trying to relate to the Stones, Meredith instead finds herself making matters worse and she enlists the help of her sister, the much less uptight Julie (Claire Danes) who arrives to give her moral support… but brings, instead, more complications.
Shopgirl
Relationships don't always fit like a glove.
A film adaptation of Steve Martin's novel about Mirabelle, a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life - wealthy divorcee Ray Porter (Steve Martin) and struggling musician Jeremy (Jason Schwartzman). Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous Ray, and her lkife takes a magical turn, but eventually she realizes that she must empower herself and make a choice between them.
The Perfect Catch
Drew Barrymore stars with Jimmy Fallon in this romantic comedy. According to Red Sox super-fan Ben Wrightman, finding romance is about as unlikely as his beloved team winning the World Series, but when Ben scores a beautiful girlfriend, suddenly anything is possible. Now the two passions in his life have a chance to go all the way…if he doesn’t strike out FIRST!
