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When I was young there was a series of books about boys and girls dreaming of the careers they'd have as grown-ups. I can't remember what the titles were, but let's say one was Don Brown, Boy Announcer. Don dreams of being a radio announcer, and one day, when an announcer falls ill at the scene of a big story, he grabs the mike and gets his chance. The engineer nodded urgently to me and I began to describe the fire, remembering to speak clearly. I was nervous at first, but soon the words flowed smoothly.

There were books about future coaches, nurses, doctors, pilots, senators, inventors, and so on. I also read the "Childhood of Famous Americans" series, but the "boy announcer" books were far superior, because they were about the childhood of me. I took a deep breath and began. This was the chance I had been waiting for!

"The Devil Wears Prada" is being positioned as a movie for grown-ups and others who know what, or who, or when, or where, Prada is. But while watching it I had the uncanny notion that, at last, one of those books from my childhood had been filmed. Call it Andy Sachs, Girl Editor. Anne Hathaway stars, as a fresh-faced Midwesterner who comes to New York seeking her first job. "I just graduated from Northwestern," she explains. "I was editor of the Daily Northwestern!" Yes! It had been a thrill to edit the student newspaper, but now, as I walked down Madison Avenue, I realized I was headed for the big time!

Andy stills dresses like an undergraduate, which offends Miranda Priestly ( Meryl Streep ), the powerful editor of Runway, the famous fashion magazine. Miranda, who is a cross between Anna Wintour, Graydon Carter and a dominatrix, stands astride the world of fashion in very expensive boots. She throws things (her coat, her purse) at her assistants, rattles off tasks to be done immediately, and demands "the new Harry Potter" in "three hours." No, not the new book in the stores. The unpublished manuscript of the next book. Her twins want to read it. So get two copies.

Young Andy Sachs gets a job as the assistant to Miranda's assistant. That's Emily ( Emily Blunt ), who is terrified of Miranda. She is blunt to Andy, and tells her: She'll need to get rid of that wardrobe, devote 24 hours a day to the job, and hope to God she remembers all of Miranda's commands. I was impressed when I first saw the famous Miranda Priestly. She had the poise of Meryl Streep, the authority of Condoleezza Rice, and was better-dressed than anyone I'd ever met, except the Northwestern Dean of Women. And now she was calling my name! Gulp!

Young Andy has a live-in boyfriend, which wasn't allowed in those old books. He is Nate ( Adrian Grenier ), who has a permanent three-day beard and loves her but wonders what has happened to "the old Andy I used to know." I was heartbroken when I had to work late on Nate's birthday, but Miranda swamped me with last-minute demands. Emily, the first assistant, lives for the day when she will travel to Paris with Miranda for Spring Fashion Week. But then Emily gets a cold, or, as Miranda puts it, becomes "an incubus of viral plague." By this time Young Andy has impressed Miranda by getting the Harry Potter manuscript, and she's dressing better, too. Nigel took me into the storage rooms, where I found myself surrounded by the latest and most luxurious fashion samples! So Andy replaces Emily on the Paris trip.

"You are the one who has to tell Emily," Miranda kindly explains. Ohmigod! I was dreaming! Paris, France! And as Miranda Priestly's assistant! But how would I break the news to Emily, who had dreamed of this day? And how could I tell Nate, whose own plans would have to be changed? Actually, by this time Young Andy has a lot of things to discuss with Nate, including her friendship with Christian ( Simon Baker ), a famous writer for New York magazine. Ohmigod! Christian said he would read my clippings!

"The Devil Wears Prada" is based on the best-selling novel by Lauren Weisberger , which oddly enough captures the exact tone, language and sophistication of the books of my childhood: There was nowhere to wipe my sweaty palms except for the suede Gucci pants that hugged my thighs and hips so tightly they'd both begun to tingle within minutes of my securing the final button. This novel was on the New York Times best-seller list for six months, and has been published in 27 countries. I hope some of the translators left the word "both" out of that sentence.

Meryl Streep is indeed poised and imperious as Miranda, and Anne Hathaway is a great beauty (" Ella Enchanted ," " Brokeback Mountain ") who makes a convincing career girl. I liked Stanley Tucci , too, as Nigel, the magazine's fashion director, who is kind and observant despite being a careerist slave. But I thought the movie should have reversed the roles played by Grenier and Baker. Grenier comes across not like the old boyfriend but like the slick New York writer, and Baker seems the embodiment of Midwestern sincerity, which makes sense, because he is from Australia, the Midwest of the southern hemisphere.

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The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

Rated PG-13

109 minutes

Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly

Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs

Emily Blunt as Emily

Stanley Tucci as Nigel

Adrian Grenier as Nate

Tracie Thoms as Lilly

Simon Baker as Christian

Directed by

David Frankel
Aline Brosh McKenna

Based on the novel by

Lauren Weisberger

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Movie Review: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

Caitlin Maggs
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Ever fancied working in the fashion industry? Well if you have, The Devil Wears Prada will definitely put you right off! Based on the hilarious best-selling novel of the same name, this movie is just what you need if you are in need of a laugh (or a cry) and it holds much more depth than would be expected of a film set in New York in this day and age that is based on such a “flighty” premise.

The Devil Wears Prada is a fast-paced and funny film that unleashes the brilliance of acting from the likes of Meryl Streep (recently in the whimsical musical Mamma Mia! ) and the beautiful Anne Hathaway (recently in Get Smart ), and delves deep into the world of high fashion, showing just how cut-throat it is and how cruel life can be if you are a new-comer to this selective world.

Naive Andy Sachs (Hathaway) learns this the hard way when she nonchalantly starts working at Runway magazine and its notorious and sophisticated editor Miranda Priestley (Streep). Miranda is quick-witted and ruthless, and simply does not accept anything less than perfect. But as we discover there is always another side to a person, as Miranda’s more sensitive interior is shown in her weakest moments. For one, she takes Andy under her wings in an attempt to shape her in her stead – poise and power over frumpiness and friends. But more tellingly, we get to see that Miranda isn’t perfect by a long shot. In the most striking scene for me in the film, we see her disheveled after a particularly nasty talk about her divorce. The difference in her appearance is amazing – she is suddenly exposed and vulnerable and it shows that many people do indeed hide who they are behind their make-up and their job title. Andy transforms too. She changes her character as she gets more used to working in the fast paced industry and turns into a work junkie (much to the dislike of her friends). She basically becomes everything that she and her boyfriend Nate (Adrian Grenier) abhor.

Although Streep is well in her comfort zone as a mean and villainous woman and Hathaway portrays Andy perfectly by showing her character’s transformation from dull to glam with such style and believability, I feel the main stand out performance is from Emily Blunt who plays Miranda Priestly’s catty assistant Emily. She is every inch as vile and sneaky as she appears in the book. She is constantly putting down Andy when Andy first joins (Emily’s got the inside track) but she gradually changes her attitude as the power begins to shift from her to her co-worker. But by the end she goes through a permanent transformation as well, becoming a much nicer person when all is said and done.

The Devil Wears Prada is not really a feel-good kind of movie but it is highly entertaining and thought-provoking. It’s dark humour (mostly in the form of put-downs aimed at Andy) had me cringing. It reminded me a lot of the sense of humour carried with the likes of Gervais’ sitcom, Extras , with its jokes revolving around awkward situations. I would suggest you watch this one after a bad day of work – it’ll make you feel so much better about your own job. A must-see for all work-o-holics!

I'm a hopeless romantic and will tend to watch anything in that genre. My favourite shows are Doctor Who, Grey's Anatomy, The Vicar Of Dibley, Charmed and Jane Austen adaptations. Movies I enjoy are Narnia, Indiana Jones, Walk The Line, musicals like Oklahoma and Sound Of Music. X

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'Movie Review: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)' have 2 comments

August 21, 2008 @ 11:17 am Mitch

This is a very well acted movie. The characters are excellent and it is fast paced with intelligent dialog for an interesting look at the fashion industry

August 12, 2010 @ 3:26 pm Kelly Watson

Still one of my favourite movies! Amazing actors, great idea and wonderful director\operator work. Started reading a book recently, just wokdering – in the book she is heavily smoking, why have they deleted this issue from her image in the scenario?

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The Devil Wears Prada Reviews

When you think of the final years of Fox before the Disney acquisition, The Devil Wears Prada is one of the standout films--they don't make them like they used to.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 30, 2021

If looks can truly kill, Meryl Streep's Miranda may very well be the fashion industry's most notorious serial killer.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 6, 2020

This one goes out to anyone suffering the whims of a tyrannical employer. For you, this will be so much more than a fun, fashion-conscious comedy. It will be therapy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 11, 2020

The film ultimately fails because it lacks the sharpness needed to make a successful satire. Who would have thought that a comedy about models could suffer from being too nice?

Full Review | Original Score: C | Nov 20, 2019

It's Meryl's movie, everyone says, and in a way it is. She gives a furiously funny performance as a furiously nasty bit of work... But, as I said earlier, scenes without her suffer horribly.

Full Review | Aug 22, 2018

There isn't anything unexpected here; it's the usual clichés: women are nasty cows who blithely undercut each other for jobs, and men are largely irrelevant to the process. . .

Full Review | Aug 23, 2017

We continue to reflect on the movie's lessons long after the laughs have diminished because they are sound, relevant and conveyed by the talents of actors who offer legitimate stakes in the material.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 22, 2016

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 9, 2011

Nimbly assembled and tartly performed

Full Review | Aug 30, 2009

An ironic measure of the film's research into the fashion-mag scene is the fact that there's almost no journalism in it.

Full Review | Aug 21, 2009

Just another formula mediocre dramedy...

Full Review | Apr 29, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

There are some must-have luxuries here, first of which is Meryl Streep's fascinating performance as the fearsome Miranda Priestly.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 27, 2008

An agreeably shallow comedy.

Full Review | May 27, 2008

The Devil Wears Prada isn't a brilliant film, but it certainly is an entertaining one.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 28, 2008

An ideal movie for DVD: you can pick and choose moments and lines to revisit while ignoring, or trying to ignore, the thematic compromises, hectoring impulses, and structural handicaps that start to engulf the film.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Aug 4, 2007

Streep is a far better reason to see "The Devil Wears Prada" than the movie itself.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jul 30, 2007

It's to the film's credit that I still found it an enjoyable satire, as glossy and superficial as the industry it purports to skewer.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2007

The story itself falls too frequently into the standard cliches of the awkward-girl-turns-into-a-swan-thanks-to-an-unexpected-fairy-godmother formula.

Full Review | Jul 10, 2007

Funciona por el talento de sus actrices, por lo inteligente de su guión y por no pretender ser nada fuera de lo común. Fue una de las sorpresas del año pasado y con justa razón.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 6, 2007

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The devil wears prada, common sense media reviewers.

Fun, frothy fashion tale has cursing and sex.

A Lot or a Little?

What you will—and won't—find in this movie.

The importance of being true to yourself and not b

Both arrogant and insecure, fashionistas lie and b

Girl hit by taxi flies over hood to the street, en

Some sexual allusions ("I can think of something w

Occasional profanity: "S--t," "A--holes." Some ref

All about high fashion (names dropped and shown in

Social drinking at parties and restaurants; Andi d

Positive Messages

The importance of being true to yourself and not being seduced by glamour, status, money. The importance of knowing when to focus on career and when to focus on relationships, and the necessity of finding that balance.

Positive Role Models

Both arrogant and insecure, fashionistas lie and betray one another; lead character loses but regains her moral compass.

Violence & Scariness

Girl hit by taxi flies over hood to the street, ends up in hospital with bruised face and broken leg.

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

Some sexual allusions ("I can think of something we can do that doesn't require any clothing"); Andi has sex with a writer on their first date (after admitting she's drunk), then regrets it.

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Occasional profanity: "S--t," "A--holes." Some references made to sex.

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Products & Purchases

All about high fashion (names dropped and shown include Prada, Pucci, Gucci, Calvin Klein, Dolce & Gabbana, Bill Blass, Chloé, Marc Jacobs); plot-pointed references to Starbucks, characters use Apple computers.

Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

Social drinking at parties and restaurants; Andi drinks wine at home and gets tipsy on a date.

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Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that The Devil Wears Prada is a 2006 movie about an aspiring journalist who moves to New York and lands what many would consider to be a dream job: working as an assistant to the editor-in-chief of the world's premiere fashion magazine. But she finds out that the editor also has a reputation for being a demanding perfectionist who can be quite vicious when her high standards are not met. The movie features cruel judgments about body size and fashion. Characters are materialistic and catty (usually as comedy, though some hurtful comments are also made). Characters use moderate language ("s--t") and drink alcohol. Lots of mentions of high-end fashion brands. Andi has sex with a writer on their first date (after admitting she's drunk), then regrets it. Younger kids won't be interested, since the subject matter won't mean anything to them. The movie could inspire discussion about how women in positions of power are perceived differently than men -- a point Andi makes toward the movie's end. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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What's the Story?

In THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, socially conscious journalism major Andi ( Anne Hathaway ) takes a job at Runway fashion magazine as second assistant to ruthless editor Miranda ( Meryl Streep ). Andi is told repeatedly that if she survives a year, she'll be able to get a job at any magazine, but has no idea how tough her year will be: Her primary jobs are fetching coffee and outfits from various designers around town, and running personal errands for Miranda. Andi is also at the beck and call of first assistant Emily ( Emily Blunt ). Worse, she's reminded daily that her clothes are ugly and that she's "fat" (at size six). Art director Nigel ( Stanley Tucci ) gives Andi a makeover and Andi devotes herself to pleasing Miranda, leaving her live-in boyfriend Nate ( Adrian Grenier ) and best friend Lilly (Tracie Thoms) feeling abandoned. But even as she's seduced by a cynical writer ( Simon Baker ) and enticed by the sense of power the fashion folks claim for themselves, Andi never loses her moral sensibility.

Is It Any Good?

Sometimes over the top and sometimes sentimental, Prada is most notable for Meryl Streep's remarkably subtle performance as super-diva Miranda Priestly. While the movie loves its costumes and montages (often together), the plot is creaky and the target far too easy: Everyone knows the world of haute couture is cutthroat, imperious, and lurid.

Streep's Miranda is complex and compelling. Though her outfits and superciliousness are as outrageous as everyone else's, Miranda tends to speak quickly and quietly, to assume her supremacy even as she's vulnerable. Fashion-loving teens are likely to enjoy this frothy tale.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

Families can talk about Andi's plan to use her assistant job as a route to becoming a journalist: How does she rationalize this choice? How does Andi learn to fit into the world of high fashion by wearing the right clothes, dieting, and becoming increasingly judgmental of others? What messages does the movie send about the importance of physical appearances?

Toward the end of the movie, Andi makes the argument that Miranda would be treated differently by our society had she been a man; where a tough and demanding male boss is seen to be strong and in control, similar qualities in a female boss are couched in labels like "ice queen" and "dragon lady." Do you think this opinion is accurate? Would Miranda be perceived differently if she had been a man?

This movie was based on a best-selling novel . What do you think would be the challenges in adapting a novel like this into a movie?

Movie Details

In theaters : June 29, 2006
On DVD or streaming : December 12, 2006
Cast : Adrian Grenier , Anne Hathaway , Meryl Streep
Director : David Frankel
Inclusion Information : Female actors
Studio : Twentieth Century Fox
Genre : Comedy
Run time : 106 minutes
MPAA rating : PG-13
MPAA explanation : some sensuality
Last updated : July 3, 2024

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The Devil Wears Prada

Comedy , Drama

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In Theaters

Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly; Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs; Emily Blunt as Emily; Stanley Tucci as Nigel; Adrian Grenier as Nate; Simon Baker as Christian Thompson

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David Frankel

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20th Century Fox

Movie Review

In the dizzying world of New York fashion, where size 0 is the new 2 and a bad hair day can end a career, Runway magazine is the bible. The fashion monthly is edited by the silver-coifed fashionista Miranda Priestly, who is the walking definition of steel fist in a velvet glove. Anyone who wants to make it in the fashion world must first get past her. So single-minded is her determination that she has blazed through a long line of assistants. It’s a job no self-respecting person should take, yet it’s an opportunity a million young women in New York would kill for.

So who winds up with it? A frumpy recent college grad named Andrea Sachs, who’s never heard of Miranda and wouldn’t know a Jimmy Choo pump from a Manolo Blahnik boot. (“It was this or Auto Universe ,” Andy explains during her job interview.) But she has moxie, and Miranda likes that. Slowly but surely, Andy develops a fashion sense and becomes one of The Clackers, so named for the sound their mile-high stiletto heels make on the marble floors. Soon she’s dropping the names of high-end fashion designers, and, much to the dismay of her friends and her boyfriend (Nate), the more successful and fashionable Andy becomes, the less time she has for them.

Positive Elements

Andy’s friends remain loyal even as she becomes more inaccessible, and they’re not afraid to tell her off when she needs it. Andy, meanwhile, is good-hearted in the way she treats her colleagues, and she makes every attempt to turn down a trip to Paris because one of Miranda’s other assistants, Emily, wants to go on the trip more. In the end, Andy goes, but never does she look down on Emily for her lowered status in their boss’s eyes. When she gets back, Andy generously gives the free fashions from the trip to Emily. Realizing her priorities have gotten out of whack, she says, “I turned my back on my friends, and for what?” Nate supplies the answer: “For some shirts, shoes and belts.”

Nigel has managed to keep his integrity intact despite working for Miranda for 18 years. He takes Andy under his wing and shepherds her through the cutthroat Runway world while also teaching her to dress more fashionably. Stabbed in the back by a spectacular act of betrayal, Nigel doesn’t lash out but determines to continue to do his job as best he can.

Through negative example, we learn the price Miranda has paid for her success when we get a glimpse of her tension-filled home life, which leads, eventually, to her second divorce.

Sexual Content

Andy and Nate share an apartment, and one scene shows her unbuttoning her blouse for him, tantalizing him (and moviegoers) with a glimpse of her bra. In another they share the bed. When Andy complains about her co-workers’ obsession with clothes, Nate says, “I can think of something that doesn’t require any clothing” as he kisses her.

Separated from Nate for a few days, Andy all-to-easily succumbs to the charms of a hotshot journalist, kisses him under a Parisian streetlamp and wakes up in bed with him the next morning. (After his shower, he emerges wearing a very low-slung towel.

An opening montage features quick-cut close-ups of body curves as women get dressed in lacy bras and panties. We see models in lingerie and other skimpy outfits, and many women wear extremely low-cut blouses and dresses.

A woman at an art exhibit tells a friend that she wants to introduce him to someone. “Art and sex,” he says. “Lead the way!”

Violent Content

Emily is hit by a taxi and tossed up against its windshield. We later see her in the hospital with a badly bruised face and a cast on her leg. Andy accidentally closes a taxi’s door on her father. Furious with Miranda, Andy smashes a plate.

Crude or Profane Language

A half-dozen s-words. One use of the euphemism “frikken.” Other blemishes include “h—,” “a–,” and British crudities “b-llocks” and “bloody.” God’s name is misused almost 20 times; Jesus’ once.

Drug and Alcohol Content

Frequent scenes of people drinking wine, beer and other alcoholic beverages in social settings. Nigel and Andy toast with champagne. Hearing that Andy is Miranda’s assistant, a designer says, “Then you’re going to need some hard liquor” and pours her some of his special “punch.” Her journalist friend warns her off it, saying the last time he drank it he went berserk and blacked out. After a dinner he begins to kiss Andy; at first she resists, saying, “I’ve had too much wine and my judgment is impaired.” (Indeed. She consummates her failed judgment moments later.)

Other Negative Elements

Emily becomes anorexic (and makes a joke about bulimia) in her desire to fit into the latest Paris fashions, and while the movie attempts to condemn it, it simultaneously plays it for laughs and approves of it, especially when Andy compliments Emily on how thin she has become. Impressionable girls will get the wrong message from that and also from the constant japes about how “fat” the rather tall and gangly Andy is. (Nigel jokes about her being a size 6, and she comes back by saying she’s down to a size 4, to which he reacts approvingly and spins her around to feast his eyes on what’s left of her backside—another reinforcement of the “thin is in” ethos of the story.)

Nate correctly disses unethical behavior, but his suggestion for improvement leaves something to be desired: “I wouldn’t care if you were out there pole dancing as long as you did it with a little integrity.”

The Devil Wears Prada is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Lauren Weisberger, who once worked on the staff of Vogue and based the character of Miranda Priestly on supposedly imperious Vogue editor Anna Wintour. Director David Frankel’s background is in TV writing and directing. Most relevant is his involvement with HBO’s Entourage and Sex and the City. Thus, this movie has a bit of the feel of the glib and morally bankrupt worldview of those shows, in particular the assumption that boyfriends and girlfriends live together and sex on the first date isn’t just OK, it’s expected—after mild, insincere protests from the girl, of course.

The end result of crossing Frankel’s vision with Weisberger’s is a bit of onscreen confusion. Andy works hard and strives to do her job as best she can. There’s nothing wrong with that, as long as she does it honestly—which she does. She also learns that dressing fashionably is expected on this job, so she adapts with the help of Nigel. Again, nothing wrong with that, so long as she doesn’t make a god of it—which she doesn’t.

To trim a long philosophical argument down to a few sentences, the supposed moral dilemmas Andy faces are really not moral dilemmas. Is Andy really a villain because she goes to Paris on her boss’s direct orders instead of throwing away her job so that an out-of-favor co-worker doesn’t get passed over for a plum assignment? Only if you jump to the conclusion that the fashion industry is in and of itself inherently, umm, devilish, and that no one with any intelligence or ethics would ever be caught dead working in it, can you get your head around what’s going on here.

I can’t get my head around what’s going on here.

Similarly, while there are some positive lessons, they come across for the most part as trite platitudes: obsessing on exterior beauty is shallow and bad, concentrating on inner beauty is good. (“You sold your soul the day you put on those Jimmy Choos.”) True enough, but Andy’s crime seems not to be obsession, or the love of clothes, if you will, it’s the clothes themselves that are somehow wrong. (Read 1 Timothy 6:10 to see how Scripture deals with money, in this regard.)

Triteness doesn’t transform into complete tripe, though, thanks to Meryl Streep’s superb acting. [ Spoiler Warning ] In a concluding scene she says to Andy, “I see a great deal of myself in you,” playing it with such subtlety that you’re not sure if she means it as a compliment—or a warning. Later, when Andy rejects the high-stress world of Runway, Streep looks at her, and you’re not sure if she’s angry at Andy or proud of her—and maybe just a bit jealous.

That’s a forkful of carbohydrates you can sink your teeth into. (As is the fact that Andy is taken to task for working so hard that she can’t nurture her personal relationships.) Too bad there’s no one on Runway ‘s staff who actually eats carbs. Casual sex, slinky clothes and crude language? Yes. Carbs? Never.

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05 Oct 2006

109 minutes

Devil Wears Prada, The

It looks like a chick flick, dresses** **like a chick flick and name-checks a fashion house in its title, so you’d be forgiven for thinking that this is the long-rumoured Sex And The City movie — and the presence of sometime SATC director David Frankel at the helm would suggest you’re right. But under the to-die-for threads of The Devil Wears Prada lurks a career-minded morality tale, wherein the gender of the two leads is of little importance — except that male stars would do themselves an injury in heels this high.

While the traditional girly movie sees some allegedly frumpy but really foxy starlet make eyes at an unattainable babe-magnet before realising she loves her best guy mate, this focuses on the oft-overlooked question of what our heroine actually does for a living. Hence this leading lady lives in a credibly small and grungy apartment, dresses badly and seems to be unacquainted with either Max Factor or Estée Lauder. There are dishy men around — Entourage’s Adrian Grenier as her long-suffering boyfriend and Simon Baker as a predatory writer — but they’re window-dressing for an altogether more businesslike tale.

Andy’s story is about getting her foot on the career ladder, a familiar goal even for those who haven’t gone through the meat-grinder of media recruitment. But her starter job as junior assistant to Runway magazine editor Miranda Priestly soon sees her life being made over along with her wardrobe. In the lead, Anne Hathaway continues her transition from cheery and freshfaced child star to cheery and freshfaced but accomplished adult actress (see also Havoc, reviewed this issue), with a down-to-Earth charm that draws inevitable comparisons to a young Julia Roberts. But, come next March, it will be Meryl Streep who receives her umpteenth Oscar nod for her role as the deliciously nasty Priestly.

In the slave-and-tell novel on which the film is based, Priestly is an unkind caricature, allegedly based on legendary Vogue editor Anna Wintour. Streep, however, manages the formidable task of giving her capricious tyrant some humanity without diluting her essential awfulness. Speaking in a soft, almost seductive monotone, she tears strips out of her assistants and withers unlucky editors with a glance — all while retaining a strange, charismatic hold over all around her. Soon her malign influence begins to warp her newest assistant, until Andy too finds herself adopting the values of her Mephistophelean mentor. Miranda’s credo may be “fashion is fabulous” rather than “greed is good”, but make no mistake — this is Gordon Gekko with better hair.

It’s left to two other Runway employees to do the film’s comedic heavy-lifting. The ever-dependable Stanley Tucci injects pathos into an underwritten part as the very camp and extremely shrewd art editor Nigel, Miranda’s right-hand man. But it’s relative newcomer Emily Blunt (My Summer Of Love) who very nearly steals the film as Miranda’s senior assistant Emily, veering brilliantly between Miranda-lite bitchery and moments of real despair (admittedly, despair that is occasioned by the threat of taking away her couture , but it’s real nevertheless).

From New York high society to Paris Fashion Week, the combination of low comedy and high fashion works beautifully. There are plot elements and the odd line that seem forced or formulaic, but the overall impression is fresh and stylish — an autumn/winter show that’s worth a look, even for the sartorially-challenged.

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75 Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum The story is glossy junk begat of just-plain junk anyway: Lauren Weisberger, who wrote the hiss-and-tell roman à clef best-seller on which the picture is based, was herself an assistant to Wintour.
75 Rolling Stone Peter Travers Rolling Stone Peter Travers Sinfully funny.
70 The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt Takes place in the world of haute couture. And that pretty much sums up the movie. Otherwise, it would be just another Queen of Mean, boss from hell movie. But, oh, what delicious fun Meryl Streep and her conspirators have with that world.
70 Variety Todd McCarthy Variety Todd McCarthy Streep single-handedly elevates this sitcomy but tolerably entertaining adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's bestselling 2003 roman a clef about a personal assistant's year of chic hell under the thumb of the dragon lady of the fashion world.
60 New York Magazine (Vulture) New York Magazine (Vulture) A scantily clad revenge memoir.
60 Newsweek David Ansen Newsweek David Ansen When the satire stays focused on Streep or her snooty Brit assistant (Emily Blunt), "Prada" is malicious fun. But the central story about how smart, idealistic Anne Hathaway, as Miranda's drably dressed new assistant, loses her soul in pursuit of success and great shoes is dramatically anorexic.
60 L.A. Weekly Ella Taylor L.A. Weekly Ella Taylor Frankel has cut, pasted and rejiggered the novel, mostly for the better. As adapted by Aline Brosh McKenna, The Devil Wears Prada is crisper, less self-righteous and mercifully shorter than its intermittently funny but interminable source.
50 The A.V. Club Keith Phipps The A.V. Club Keith Phipps Sometimes actors get parts so rich that they almost can't help but make meals of them. Playing a frosty, high-powered editor in The Devil Wears Prada, Meryl Streep turns the role into a four-course dinner and shows up with her own dessert...But it's hard to care about what's going on whenever she's offscreen.
50 Dallas Observer Dallas Observer More "Pretty Woman" than "Working Girl," The Devil Wears Prada really lives to give its angel a high-class makeover.
50 Premiere Aaron Hillis Premiere Aaron Hillis So stupendously funny at times that she (Streep) nearly salvages the whole thing.
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The Devil Wears Prada

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Life for those in fawning, panicked thrall to Runway magazine über-editor Miranda Priestly (

Meryl Streep

) can be nasty, brutish and short – as wannabe journalist and couture ignoramus Andy (Anne ‘Perky!’ Hathaway) discovers upon fluking her way into the coveted post of Miranda’s second assistant. But can she put up with the job’s incessant, ridiculous demands without going native? ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ is based on Lauren Weisberger’s roman-à-clef about her spell at Vogue, a blinkered but scathing rejection of fashmagland transformed by

Aline Brosh McKenna

’s script into an aspirational Manhattanite fairy-tale about an ugly duckling who goes to the ball but learns there’s no place like home. It’s far from perfect – a romantic subplot featuring a smoothie writer and the contrived third-act jeopardy at Paris Fashion Week are both duff – but it’s often very funny, especially Streep’s Priestly. She combines stringent expectations with infuriating vagueness and disappointment at the perennial incompetence of those around her. Still, the whole thing is humbug, a giant ad for the industry it affects to critique; any notion that it would be otherwise went out the window when the director of ‘Sex and the City’ was given the gig. The dodgy cable-knit polymixes and reckless carb consumption that initially mark Andy out are madeover: street crossings become her catwalks and reaching a size four marks a triumph. Sure, she jacks it in to work for a community newspaper, but when you can wheel on Valentino to croon over the creation with which he’s just fabulised Streep-Priestly, few 12-year-old girls will be leaving the cinema sighing, ‘Yes! Let me at that rent-fixing scandal!’

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Release date: Thursday 5 October 2006
Duration: 109 mins

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Director: David Frankel
Screenwriter: Aline Brosh McKenna
Adrian Grenier
Anne Hathaway
Stanley Tucci
Emily Blunt
Simon Baker

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Devil Wears Prada, The (United States, 2006)

The Devil Wears Prada is two films in one: a caustic, energetic satire of the fashion world and a cautionary melodrama. The first works; the second doesn't. Fortunately, the running time of the former doubles that of the latter, making The Devil Wears Prada more of a hit than a miss. In fact, even through some of the weaker parts, there are still strong performances by standouts Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci.

The novel by Lauren Weisberger stirred the interest of the fashion industry and fashion-watchers, and caused many readers to play the game of trying to match fictional representations with their real-life counterparts. For those who aren't members of the fashion inner circle, the satire is obvious but some of its targets may not be. That doesn't diminish the enjoyability of the film, which is relentless in its cynical attitude toward a culture obsessed with style and an industry that wallows in self-importance.

Christopher Guest is one of a few directors who can allow satire to exist without the benefit of window dressing, but this isn't one of Guest's productions. Hollywood films - and The Devil Wears Prada is a member of that group - require characters and story arcs. That's where the film gets into trouble. For about 70 minutes, it bubbles along, lobbing grenades at various targets and tossing in multiple montages. Then the film gets serious. Its trite message - be true to yourself and your friends - rings false, and the cloying ending feels like it was written for another film then tacked onto the end of this one. When The Devil Wears Prada downshifts in tone from satire to melodrama, it's an uneven and unwelcome transition. Suddenly, the qualities that make the first two-thirds such sparkling entertainment, evaporate.

The Devil Wears Prada tells the story of Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway), a recently graduated journalism major who is applying for the job of second assistant to Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), the editor of Runway magazine. Runway is the most influential fashion magazine in the industry, and no one wields more power than Miranda. She is revered as a goddess by co-workers and competitors alike. Get a job working for her and stick it out for a year, and countless doors will open. This is what Miranda's current #1 assistant, Emily (Emily Blunt), is counting on. Others, like Nigel (Stanley Tucci), have become fixtures at Runway while waiting for their dream job to materialize.

When it comes to fashion, Andy has none. She is a size six ("Six is the new fourteen," quips Nigel) and wears frumpy clothing. Miranda hires her on a whim, hoping that Andy's smarts will compensate for her lack of dress sense. It's not a promising beginning. Andy despises the shallowness of those who work at Runway and ridicules them to her boyfriend, Nate (Adrian Grenier), and her friends. Then something starts to happen. Like Anakin Skywalker, Andy is seduced by the dark side of the force, and becomes a loyal subject to Emperor Miranda.

It's amazing how much more alive the film is when it's concentrating on Andy's job. Her personal life and out-of-work relationships are boring. There's irony here, because the film's ultimate message is that no business is so important that it should trump interpersonal interests, yet The Devil Wears Prada comes alive within the walls of the Runway building. I wonder if director David Frankel (an HBO veteran who has helmed episodes of Entourage and Sex in the City ) is aware of the mixed message his film is delivering.

Anne Hathaway gives a vanilla performance. She has little presence and tends to blend in with the scenery. Despite being the supposed lead, she is upstaged by supporting performers. Meryl Streep gets top billing but has less screen time; nevertheless, her humanized Cruella De Vil dominates scenes. Emily Blunt, who made an impression in My Summer of Love , is rarely outshone, nor is Stanley Tucci. When Streep, Blunt, and Tucci are together, the scene crackles with energy. When none of them are present, The Devil Wears Prada slips into a black hole. Fortunately, such instances are rare.

On balance, I enjoyed the film, despite the whiny final half hour and the artificial conclusion. (Whatever happened to hard-edged endings in satires?) I recognize that the film is being marketed toward women, but I see no reason why men can't enjoy what The Devil Wears Prada offers. The kind of corporate culture that comes under assault by Frankel isn't isolated to the fashion industry; viewers might be surprised at the universality of some of the targets. With so many "loud" movies opening in multiplexes, it's refreshing to find something that provides a change of pace.

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This is a predictable movie, not particularly funny, like Funny Face with no musical numbers.

David Frankel’s The Devil Wears Prada , based on Lauren Weisberger’s popular roman à clef about her stint as personal assistant to Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, functions like a big-screen version of Sex and the City (Frankel helmed some episodes of that show)—it moves fast, and it aims to dazzle you with shoes, brand names, and glamorous locales. Our doe-eyed heroine (Anne Hathaway), who longs to be a serious journalist, decides to put in time as a flunky to ice-queen fashion arbiter Miranda Priestley (Meryl Streep), seeing the demeaning gig as a stepping stone to loftier things. She soon trades in her drab sweaters for slinky couture, and her friends keep telling her that she’s selling her soul, but Hathaway, with her endearingly awkward body language, doesn’t seem to change or be in any real danger. The plot keeps dangling attractive opportunities for her to become a ruthless careerist, but Hathaway never really swerves from rectitude or being a Nice Person and never seems truly tempted by sex and power.

This is a predictable movie, not particularly funny, like Funny Face with no musical numbers, but it’s a fairly well made and very well acted piece of sadistic bad-job porn. Stanley Tucci is fresh and appealing as Miranda’s gay advisor and Emily Blunt shows off impressive comic timing as the desperate first assistant. As the devil herself, Streep plays it cool, creating a striking, cobra-like, soft-spoken tyrant who moves and speaks in a minimalist fashion, like a queen who cannot be expected to waste any excess energy on trifles. In Robert Altman’s superb A Prairie Home Companion , Streep was at her fidgety worst: mugging, hogging attention, condescending to her character, and hiding behind a Wisconsin accent. Yet for this amiable, often dubious little entertainment, she puts together a wholly believable, subtle portrait of a bitch who lives in her own world, who lies to herself about what she does and why she does it.

A few days ago, I was idly walking by an Upper West Side theater that was screening the premiere of this film, and I stopped for a minute to take a look at Streep, who was talking to reporters. A dignified-looking young girl walked past me carrying some Samuel French play scripts; she was probably a Julliard acting student. When she saw Meryl Streep standing a foot away from her, she let out a hoarse scream and burst into tears, like a fan at a Beatles concert. Streep’s eminence in her profession is understandable. Though I often have problems with her (James McCourt once snapped that she’s been “indicating,” a cardinal acting sin, for over 30 years), I appreciate her extremely prickly, often pessimistic views on human nature as expressed in a large catalogue of work stretching back to the late-’70s.

Like Katharine Hepburn, Streep has not been eased into supporting roles in late middle age, and she continues to take the plum parts. Unlike the lyrical Hepburn, Streep is always at her best when playing women who refuse to give in to emotion. Roles like this match up with something weirdly hidden and withholding in her creative character, which lies in stark contrast to the shifting surface of her lavishly gifted but too-often fussy technical skills. The Devil Wears Prada is worth seeing for one scene Streep plays without make-up. Miranda’s husband has decided to leave her, and she briefly lets her guard down in front of Hathaway (actually, she lets her guard down guardedly , like Lindy Chamberlain slowly cracking in the courtroom in A Cry in the Dark ). Regret comes into her eyes, and human feeling is dying to break through, but Streep’s Miranda fights it off and snaps back to making her outlandish demands. This effect is touching, invigoratingly tough, and completely Streep-ian. Here is the stroke of an artist cutting through the narcissistic confusion around her, both shaming and enlivening this smooth but wafer-thin film.

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The new Elton John-Shaina Taub musical, based on the popular film about a fashion-world ingénue and her demanding boss, isn’t yet ready-to-wear.

By Alexis Soloski

CHICAGO — A movie-to-musical that wants to have its cake and eat it, too, and still fit into a sample size , “ The Devil Wears Prada ,” opened at the James M. Nederlander Theater here on Sunday. With music by the rock god Elton John and lyrics by the Off-Broadway sweetheart Shaina Taub (“Suffs”), it had seemed poised to set a trend or two.

Though the show takes place at a fashion magazine, its creative team doesn’t seem to have agreed on a style. Is this a sincere story of a young woman’s education — sentimental, professional, sartorial — or a Fashion Week party? An inquiry into toxic workplace culture or an excuse to put an Eiffel Tower (technically, two Eiffel Towers) onstage? This is a show that has tried on everything in its closet. Nothing fits.

Adapted from the 2006 film , itself adapted from Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 roman à clef of her year at Condé Nast, it follows Andy Sachs (Taylor Iman Jones), a recent journalism graduate. Andy has big dreams. The Big Apple quashes them quickly in “I Mean Business,” the show’s efficient opener. After six months of rejections, she somehow lands a coveted job at Runway — a fictional stand-in for Vogue — as the second assistant to its imperious editrix, Miranda Priestly ( Beth Leavel .)

Andy doesn’t care about fashion. She has the cable-knit tights to prove it. But she needs a job to pay the rent. (Yes, the musical assumes that an entry-level media gig guarantees financial security. How dear.) So she makes what she perceives as the first of many Faustian bargains — to put her dreams on hold and stick it out for a year.

“My voice can wait,” she tells Miranda. I mean, Joan Didion got her start at Vogue. But sure.

The trouble is, Andy isn’t very good at her job. Certainly she lacks the maniacal perfectionism and bonkers wardrobe of Emily Charlton, the venomous first assistant (Megan Masako Haley, wasted until the second act). For help, she turns to the magazine’s creative director, Nigel Owens ( Javier Muñoz ), who gives her the makeover she so desperately needs, in “Dress Your Way Up,” a power ballad inspired by the Met’s costume collection and the coffee mug platitude that you should dress for the job you want.

But Andy remains ambivalent about her work. And is a hot pink romper and thigh-high boots really anyone’s idea of office wear? (The costumes, which range from the flamboyant — the chorus — to the unpersuasive and oddly wrinkled — the principals — are by Arianne Phillips.) The musical is ambivalent, too. The film, with its sleeker wardrobe and more substantial visual pleasures, seemed grudgingly admiring of the fashion industry, as commerce, as art. The show, directed by Anna D. Shapiro , a serious-minded artist I would not have associated with glitter or caprice, can’t make up its mind.

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Andy learns to thrive in the fashion industry with help from Nigel, but ultimately quits to avoid becoming like Miranda.
Miranda secures her job through connections and extortion, outmaneuvering plans to replace her at Runway.
Despite disappointment, Miranda smiles at Andy's defiance, seeing a reflection of herself and earning some respect.

At the end of The Devil Wears Prada , Andy finally quits working for Miranda, but may have earned her former boss' respect in the process. The Devil Wears Prad a is directed by David Frankel from a script by Aline Brosh McKenna based on the book written by Lauren Weisberger and features an all-star cast including Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, and includes a number of fashionable cameos. The Devil Wears Prada was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Costume Design for Patricia Field and Best Actress for Meryl Streep.

When she can't find the job she wants as a journalist, Andrea (Andy) Sachs (Anne Hathaway) takes a position as the co-personal assistant of Runway Editor and fashion industry icon Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) alongside her existing assistant Emily Charlton (Emily Blunt). Initially, Andy struggles to fulfill Miranda's extreme demands and doesn't care about the fashion industry, but after art director Nigel Kipling (Stanley Tucci) takes her under his wing, she begins to flourish; however, when the job starts to impact her personal life, and she sees Miranda stab Nigel in the back, Andy decides to leave before she becomes more like Miranda.

A composite image of the cast of The Devil Wears Prada

Besides being one of the defining comedies of the 2000s, The Devil Wears Prada featured an illustrious cast of big names and soon-to-be stars.

How Miranda Avoided Getting Replaced By Jacqueline As The Editor of Runway

Miranda secures her job through connections, backstabbing, and extortion.

After Andy discovered the plan to replace Miranda Priestly with Jacqueline Follet (Stephanie Szostak) as the Runway editor, she tried to warn Miranda, but it turns out Miranda was several steps ahead of her. The Devil Wears Prada doesn't explicitly reveal how Miranda became aware of the plan to replace her, but the movie does clearly establish how deeply connected Miranda is within the industry, so if the deal was far enough along for there to be a Runway cover mock-up, it makes sense she'd be aware of it.

The Devil Wears Prada 's villainous Miranda then used her influence to get Jacqueline an offer she couldn't refuse from James Holt's new company, making her unavailable for the Runway position. Once Miranda got Jacqueline to accept the position with James Holt, she simply needed to convince Irv Ravitz to keep her on as the Runway editor, for which she had an even more devious scheme.

During her years at the magazine, she'd assembled "The List," featuring the names of numerous designers, photographers, editors, writers, and models she'd brought to the magazine, all of which said they'd leave Runway to follow her if she went to a different publication . "The List" is clearly thinly veiled extortion , although very characteristic of how Miranda and the rest of the industry operate throughout The Devil Wears Prada.

What Happened To Nigel?

He's loyal to miranda to a fault.

The night before Miranda announces Jacqueline as the new president of James Holt International, Nigel revealed to Andy that James Holt had selected him for the position and that Miranda was the one who recommended him for the position. Miranda obviously has sway with Holt, which is why Nigel was initially offered the position, but she didn't hesitate to throw Nigel under the bus when it came time to save her own skin by pushing Jacqueline for the position instead.

Nigel wasn't aware of Miranda's schemes, so he didn't find out about the change of plans until Miranda announced Jacqueline for the position, still fully expecting to hear her say his name instead. Despite his deep disappointment, Nigel tells Andy "when the time is right, she'll pay me back."

Even though he doesn't truly believe his words, he has "hope for the best." Nigel has always been a faithful supporter of Miranda despite the chaos that swirls around her, and it's worked out well for him so far, but the back-stabbing move is a revelation to Andy, who was attempting to help Miranda avoid getting replaced.

Why Andy Finally Quit Runway

She doesn't want to be like miranda.

Anne Hathaway looking at Meryl Streep in a car in The Devil Wears Prada

Andy is initially overwhelmed by Miranda's demands, and while the job doesn't necessarily get easier with time, Andy learns to accommodate Miranda by sacrificing more and more of her personal life. Nigel was the one who told her each new achievement in her career would come at the cost of her personal life continuing to crumble, so seeing him stabbed in the back by Miranda was a wake-up call for her, although even that alone isn't what led her to quit.

Andy had already gone along with Miranda's demands up to that point, but it was their conversation after Miranda gave Nigel's job to Jacqueline that finally pushed Andy over the edge . In the car after the event, Miranda tells Andy she was impressed with her effort to warn her about Jacqueline replacing her as the editor of Runway.

Miranda saying "I see a great deal of myself in you" in the wake of her crushing Nigel's dream job was the moment Andy decided she didn't want the job anymore and finally gave her the courage to throw the cell phone in a fountain and walk away from Miranda and the job at Runway.

Why Miranda Smiled At The End

She sees a lot of herself in andy.

Miranda Priestly smiles in her car at the end of The Devil Wears Prada

Despite Andy leaving Miranda high and dry in Paris, Miranda still tells the editor at the New York Mirror he'd be an "idiot" if he didn't hire Andy. While Miranda showed approval towards Andy occasionally, most of the time she was critical of her job performance, even when Andy was achieving impossible tasks such as getting the unpublished Harry Potter novel transcript for Miranda's twin daughters. She even tells the New York Mirror that Andy was the "biggest disappointment" she'd ever had as an assistant, yet when she sees her on the street at the end, she still smiles.

While Miranda may have been legitimately disappointed in Andy's decision at the end of The Devil Wears Prada , the smile is likely related to her telling Andy she reminded her of herself. Even though she abandoned the job in the least convenient way possible, the part of Andy that was standing up for herself and throwing everyone else under the bus was the same part that reminded Miranda of herself.

The Devil Wears Prada differs from the book in this happier ending. Andy might not want to be the next Miranda Priestly, but she's also not a pushover willing to do whatever Miranda says like the assistants that came before her, and that's something Miranda has to respect.

Is A Sequel Ever Happening?

Anne hathaway has spoken on the possibility.

Despite the huge success of the movie, it has been nearly two decades since the release of The Devil Wears Prada and there is still no sign of a sequel in the works. The ending of the film is fitting for the story being told, but it does leave enough of the characters in play that there is room for the story to continue. However, the chances of it happening are not good as Anne Hathaway recently shut down any talk of a Devil Wears Prada sequel .

"I don't know if there can be [a sequel movie]. I just think that movie was in a different era, you know? Now, everything's gone so digital, and that movie centered around the concept of producing a physical thing. It's just very different now."

As beloved as the original is, a sequel is not necessary and could end up ruining the legacy of the original. The ending shot of Miranda smiling slightly showed the first hint of a likable side to her which made for a nice conclusion. However, knowing that she is not the cold-blooded monster she seemed to be for the entire movie, it might not be as fun watching her in the sequel. Comedy sequels are also notoriously hard to pull off so fans are better off rewatching The Devil Wears Prada rather than waiting for a continuation.

The Devil Wears Prada

Based on Lauren Weisberger's novel, The Devil Wears Prada stars Anne Hathaway as Andrea Sachs, an aspiring journalist who, after landing a job with top New York fashion designer Miranda Priestly, gets drawn deeper and deeper into the cutthroat world of the fashion industry. Meryl Streep stars alongside Hathaway as Miranda Priestly, with a further cast that includes Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, and Simon Baker.

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Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada.

The Devil Wears Prada, released in June 2006, is now the age of a grade-schooler: If it were a human, it would be a 10-year-old scuffling along in her mother’s Manolo Blahniks or seeing her future inheritance reflected in the subtle calfskin gleam of a Birkin bag. The picture was a hit upon its release—it was the 17th-highest grossing movie that year, which isn’t bad for a PG-13-rated comedy of little interest to ticket-buying teenage boys—and in the years since, it has become a comfort-food movie, the kind of thing women (and surely some men) like to watch over and over again .

That’s partly because the appeal of watching put-upon underlings triumph over haughty higher-ups never loses its gloss. In this case, it’s Anne Hathaway ’s Andy, personal assistant to tyrannical fashion-magazine czarina Miranda Priestly ( Meryl Streep ), who emerges, slightly scarred but undaunted, from the battleground of her first magazine job. (The movie, directed by David Frankel, was based on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel, which drew from her real-life experience as the assistant to Vogue magazine’s notoriously demanding editor Anna Wintour.) The movie’s pleasures are hardly negligible: A montage showing Streep’s Priestly heedlessly tossing her coat-and-handbag combo onto Andy’s desk, morning after morning after morning, is partly a clever pantomime of the monotony of being a wage slave and partly a grand eye-roll at the sort of person who has so much great stuff to wear that she can just fling it around without a thought.

But even though The Devil Wears Prada is set at a fashion magazine, and hits hard at the foibles of fashion people, it isn’t really a fashion movie—if anything, it’s a movie that hates fashion. Over and over again, Andy laments that what she really wants to be is a journalist—the subtext, so hamfisted it barely qualifies as a subtext—is that she’s too good for fashion, with all its idiocy and frivolity. Streep’s Priestly has the movie’s smartest line—one that the film, ultimately, betrays. Surveying one of Andy’s impossibly dowdy, pre-makeover work outfits, she says, in a cool and level voice, “You’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care what you put on your back.”

In the end, this movie is the ultimate fuel for people who think that not caring about fashion automatically grants them superior intelligence. With the exception of two terrific characters—Stanley Tucci’s wry art director and Emily Blunt’s perennial assistant, who cares about fashion so much that it fills her with an almost desperate hunger—the movie never rises above the level of “Look at all these silly people who care about this ridiculous, overpriced stuff. They must be really stupid.”

It doesn’t help that the clothes in The Devil Wears Prada are—let’s just say it— terrible . With the exception of a few of Priestly’s work outfits (like a trim jacket scattered with matte bronze paillettes that shouldn’t work for day, but does), almost everything the “fashionable” people wear in The Devil Wears Prada is either comically overaccessorized or slapped together in combinations that the truly chic would never attempt. The movie’s costume designer is Patricia Field , who also, famously, dressed the actresses for Sex and the City , a brilliant and beautiful show (for at least five of its six seasons) that honored the ghost of comedy-of-manners virtuoso Anita Loos in the best way. Field’s work on that show (Kristen Davis’s pussycat-bow blouses, Kim Cattrall’s free-flowing jersey separates) was terrific—when she was dressing everyone but Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw. Carrie’s supposedly cool, fashion-forward outfits grew more horrific and overstimulated with each passing season, a melange of tutus and unflattering headdresses that had less to do with fashion, or even eccentric taste, than with seeing how much weird, wretched stuff could be piled on the back of one rather small-boned actress. The critic Laura Miller once lamented that Carrie’s outfits made her look like “an organ grinder’s monkey.”

That’s the spirit Fields brings, more or less, to The Devil Wears Prada : In her view, nearly every woman working at Runway magazine (a thinly veiled Vogue ) expresses her individuality and style by wearing lots of necklaces plus big earrings, and maybe a superfluous bracelet or two. Nearly everyone is strutting around in cluttered, fashion-victim combos and high, high heels. Andy’s post-makeover outfits—most of them consisting of pieces by Chanel—are jumbled together in a way that’s supposed to signify youthful creativity but which really just scream, “I have no idea what I’m doing, and I don’t care.” Every fashion workplace has its crazy magpies, but there’s always at least one sleek, understated doe, usually dressed in head-to-toe taupe, running with the pack. She’s nowhere to be seen in The Devil Wears Prada, because that wouldn’t fit the absurd spectacle people generally hope to see in a movie about the fashion world.

In Field’s defense, movie costuming isn’t the same as choosing fashion for a photo spread or, heaven forbid, for real life: Things that are a little extreme tend to read better on camera. And with the exception of great 1970s splash-outs like Mahogany and Eyes of Laura Mars, movies about the fashion world rarely capture what’s so compelling about fashion anyway. But The Devil Wears Prada falls way too short of the mark. There isn’t enough variety among the Runway workers—they’re all playing by the “more is more” rulebook, without ever knowing when to quit.

And that does the language of fashion—and the world of people who truly care about it—a disservice. It’s true that fashion can be the province of stupid, shallow people. But that can be said of the world of movies and books and music, too, and even of fine art: Not everyone who makes or enjoys these things is as intelligent as he or she is cracked up to be, or would like to be.

Fashion, at its purest, is both a means of personal expression and a way of reaching toward beauty. To love it—to really love it—has nothing to do with loading up on the latest from Dior or Balmain, or with coveting this or that It bag, or with throwing runway looks on your Instagram, tagged with the words “I’m obsessed!” It’s not just about learning how to look, but learning how to see: Why does one sleeve follow the curve of the human arm perfectly, while another hangs stiff, like an awkward soldier? Why do certain color combinations (tangerine and turquoise, marigold and cobalt) please the eye, even when you think they shouldn’t work?

If The Devil Wears Prada, 10 years old this week, represents the wrong way to look and think about fashion, this week has also given us a reminder of the right way, although it’s a sad one: Bill Cunningham , the New York Times’ longtime on-the-street photographer—and the subject of the superb 2010 documentary Bill Cunningham New York —died on June 25, at age 87. Cunningham had actually made fashion himself (he was a milliner in the 1950s), and was a cofounder of Details magazine. But for some 40 years—almost right up to the day of his death—he could be found, dressed in his trademark blue workman’s smock, pedaling the streets of New York on his bike, camera around his neck, at the ready to capture fashion in the wild. His subjects included socialites wrapped in plush furs and club kids in improvised outfits that might have cost a nickel.

The things that would stop him—the swooping cut of a jacket, a weird, vibrant color combination, a small accessory that had somehow turned drab outfit into one of pure delight—were not necessarily things you could list or even adequately describe in words. But Cunningham was always alive to the telling detail. That’s a world apart from just piling on the details. The Devil Wears Prada, on the other hand, gives us everything to look at, but nothing to see.

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The Devil Wears Prada cancels performance due to threat from nearby protests

The show is having a pre-West End spell in Plymouth.

6 August 2024

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The Devil Wears Prada cancelled a preview performance yesterday after worries around protests in Plymouth.

In a statement, the venue said yesterday: “With protests planned to take place in Plymouth city centre, tonight’s performance of The Devil Wears Prada has been cancelled along with our FUSE: Producing workshop.

“The safety of our audience members, staff and performers is always our priority, and as such, the decision to cancel the 19:30 performance was taken in everyone’s best interests. All those with tickets for tonight’s show have been emailed, so please do check your inbox.”

Performances today, 6 August, are set to go ahead as normal.

Due to circumstances outside of our control, tonight’s performance of The Devil Wears Prada has been cancelled along with our FUSE: Producing workshop. pic.twitter.com/zhzO5wnOpA — Theatre Royal Plymouth (@TRPlymouth) August 5, 2024

The musical has a score by Elton John ( Billy Elliot ) and Shaina Taub ( Suffs ) and book by Kate Wetherhead ( Burlesque the Musical ) – with direction and choreography by Jerry Mitchell ( Kinky Boots ) .

Based on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel and the 2006 movie starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, The Devil Wears Prada follows Andy, a journalist who takes on a job at a fashion magazine with unexpected results.

Vanessa Williams stars as the fearsome Miranda Priestly and WhatsOnStage Award winner Matt Henry plays Nigel (the role originated in the film by Stanley Tucci), alongside Georgie Buckland ( Shrek the Musical ) as Andy and Amy Di Bartolomeo ( Six ) as Emily.

Joining them are James Darch ( Mam m a Mia! ) as journalist Christian , with Rhys Whitfield ( The Phantom of the Opera ) as Andy’s long – term boyfriend, Nate. For the show’s London run this autumn, Debbie Kurup will join the production as the standby Miranda Priestly.

Completing the cast are Maddy Ambus , Gabby Antrobus , Selena Ba rron, Pamela Blair, Robertina Bonano , Ll oyd Davies, Elishia Edwards, Akeem Ellis-Hyman, Elizabeth Fullalove , Jinny Gould, Natasha Heyward, Samuel How, Luke Jackson , Liam Marcellino , Robbie McMillan, Ciro Lourencio Meulens , Gabriel Mokake , Theo Papoui , Christopher Parkinson , Eleanor Peach , Ethan Le Phong , Jon Reynolds, Harriet Samuel-Gray , Olivia Saunders, Kayleigh Thadani, Ella Valentine and Tara Yasmin .

The Devil Wears Prada will run at Theatre Royal Plymouth for a preliminary run to 17 August 2024, with a West End season to then follow from 24 October at the Dominion Theatre.

The production features set design by Tim Hatley ( Back to the Future ), costume design by Gregg Barnes ( Legally Blonde ), lighting design by Bruno Poet ( Tina – The Tina Turner Musical ), sound design by Gareth Owen ( & Juliet ) and casting by WhatsOnStage Award winner Jill Green.

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By Abdul Azim Naushad

People are curious about Gisele Bundchen ‘s net worth in 2024 . This is due to Bundchen’s status as a supermodel and her great fame in the modeling world.

Here is everything we have uncovered on Gisele Bundchen’s current net worth and also her earnings.

What is Gisele Bundchen’s net worth in 2024?

Gisele Bundchen has an estimated net worth of $400 million in 2024 .

Bundchen’s net worth in 2024 consists of earnings from her modeling gigs, book sales, and brand partnerships. She has also dabbled in acting.

Bundchen is most famous for her work as a supermodel. She is said to be among Brazil’s first ultra-popular and ultra-intelligent models. Moreover, Bundchen is also credited for giving Brazilian models the great reputation they are currently enjoying. She is also known for having been a major face of Victoria’s Secret and for her work with many high-profile designers from the fashion industry. Furthermore, she is also known for her previous high-profile relationships with actor Leonardo DiCaprio and NFL player Tom Brady .

What does Gisele Bundchen do for a living?

Gisele Bundchen is primarily a model. However, she has also dabbled in book writing, brand partnerships, and acting.

More recently, Bundchen launched a cookbook called Nourish. She co-wrote this cookbook with Elinor Hutton. In April 2024, the book secured second place in the New York Times bestselling book list.

Gisele Bundchen’s earnings explained — how does she make money?

Gisele Bundchen earns money from her modeling career, book sales, and brand partnerships. She has also added to her wealth through a few acting roles .

Modelling gigs

Over the years, Gisele Bundchen has greatly increased her net worth by modeling for various brands. These brands include Ralph Lauren, Versace, Dolce and Gabbana, Victoria’s Secret, Vivara, Balmain, and IWC.

Bundchen has also written and sold several books, adding to her income. In 2018, she released the book My Path to a Meaningful Life which became a New York Times bestseller and stayed a best-selling book in Brazil for more than six months. More recently, she co-wrote the cookbook Nourish with Elinor Hutton, which secured second place in April 2024 on the New York Times bestselling books list.

Brand partnerships

Bundchen has partnered with many brands over the years, including Vivara, H&M, Chanel, and Carolina Herrera.

Bundchen has also acted in two films, Taxi, and The Devil Wears Prada, which has contributed to her net worth.

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This was the chance I had been waiting for! "The Devil Wears Prada" is being positioned as a movie for grown-ups and others who know what, or who, or when, or where, Prada is. But while watching it I had the uncanny notion that, at last, one of those books from my childhood had been filmed. Call it Andy Sachs, Girl Editor.
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Directed by David Frankel. Comedy, Drama. PG-13. 1h 49m. By A.O. Scott. June 30, 2006. NO man is a hero to his valet. So the saying goes, or used to go, since few men these days actually have ...
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The Devil Wears Prada is not really a feel-good kind of movie but it is highly entertaining and thought-provoking. It's dark humour (mostly in the form of put-downs aimed at Andy) had me cringing. It reminded me a lot of the sense of humour carried with the likes of Gervais' sitcom, Extras, with its jokes revolving around awkward situations.
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Our review: Parents say ( 11 ): Kids say ( 57 ): Sometimes over the top and sometimes sentimental, Prada is most notable for Meryl Streep's remarkably subtle performance as super-diva Miranda Priestly. While the movie loves its costumes and montages (often together), the plot is creaky and the target far too easy: Everyone knows the world of ...
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Stanley Tucci is superb as Nigel, the ambitious, hard working man who dreams of having a position of power like Miranda's some day. "The Devil Wears Prada" is a very funny movie that is not as far divorced from the real world as, I believe, the producers of this movie may have thought. 150 out of 186 found this helpful.
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The Devil Wears Prada: Directed by David Frankel. With Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci. A smart but sensible new graduate lands a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine.
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The Devil Wears Prada is a 2006 American comedy-drama film directed by David Frankel and produced by Wendy Finerman.The screenplay, written by Aline Brosh McKenna, is based on the 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger.The film stars Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, and Emily Blunt.. In 2003, 20th Century Fox bought the rights to a film adaptation of Weisberger's novel before it was ...
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The Devil Wears Prada (2006) The humour is as spiky as a pair of Manolo Blahniks yet The Devil Wears Prada isn't just a satire on the fashion industry. Anne Hathaway provides a soft centre as ...
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Movie Review. In the dizzying world of New York fashion, where size 0 is the new 2 and a bad hair day can end a career, Runway magazine is the bible. The fashion monthly is edited by the silver-coifed fashionista Miranda Priestly, who is the walking definition of steel fist in a velvet glove. ... The Devil Wears Prada is based on the best ...
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The Devil Wears Prada - Metacritic. 2006. PG-13. Fox 2000 Pictures. 1 h 49 m. Summary The best-selling novel about a young woman who stumbles into the hectic worlds of high fashion and publishing comes to the big screen. Comedy. Drama. Directed By: David Frankel.
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Everything else to do with 'The Devil Wears Prada' is all perfectly fine don't get me wrong, but I most certainly wouldn't have enjoyed it as much without the cast. Meryl Streep does an excellent job portraying Miranda, while Anne Hathaway matches her as Andrea. Emily Blunt (Emily) is also enjoyable, as is Stanley Tucci (Nigel).
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As adapted by Aline Brosh McKenna, The Devil Wears Prada is crisper, less self-righteous and mercifully shorter than its intermittently funny but interminable source. Sometimes actors get parts so rich that they almost can't help but make meals of them. Playing a frosty, high-powered editor in The Devil Wears Prada, Meryl Streep turns the role ...
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The Devil Wears Prada is a smashing success both as a portrait of the fashion world in New York and as a touching and alluring story of a young woman's initiation into the moral and ethical decisions that form character on the job. Special DVD features include: a commentary by director David Frankel, producer Wendy Finerman, costume designer ...
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A movie review by James Berardinelli. The Devil Wears Prada is two films in one: a caustic, energetic satire of the fashion world and a cautionary melodrama. The first works; the second doesn't. Fortunately, the running time of the former doubles that of the latter, making The Devil Wears Prada more of a hit than a miss.
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Review: The Devil Wears Prada. This is a predictable movie, not particularly funny, like Funny Face with no musical numbers. David Frankel's The Devil Wears Prada, based on Lauren Weisberger's popular roman à clef about her stint as personal assistant to Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, functions like a big-screen version of Sex and the ...
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At the end of The Devil Wears Prada, Andy finally quits working for Miranda, but may have earned her former boss' respect in the process. The Devil Wears Prada is directed by David Frankel from a script by Aline Brosh McKenna based on the book written by Lauren Weisberger and features an all-star cast including Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, and includes a number of ...
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The Devil Wears Prada will run at Theatre Royal Plymouth for a preliminary run to 17 August 2024, with a West End season to then follow from 24 October at the Dominion Theatre.. The production features set design by Tim Hatley (Back to the Future), costume design by Gregg Barnes (Legally Blonde), lighting design by Bruno Poet (Tina - The Tina Turner Musical), sound design by Gareth Owen ...
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