Plagiarism of the worst order

Rating: 7/10 (2 March 2008)

This film, or rather the book of this film by Lauren Weisberger, is a blatant steal from The Best of Everything, by Rona Jaffe. The film pinches all the moves from director Jean Neguleco's 1959 original to add to the larceny. In the earlier film, Joan Crawford's Amanda Farrow, becomes Meryl Streep's Miranda Priestly. In both opening scenes, Hope Lange, aka Anne Hathaway, scans the tall building housing their employer to be. Both display papers with details of their employment and both have identical elevator up and open shots, before viewing the Employer's name printed on the office door / reception. It goes on from there with Streep almost reading Crawford's lines, and certainly her style. What a con! Has anyone else picked up this up?