Anne Hathaway jousts with Meryl Streep

Rating: 9/10 (3 August 2014)

The story is supposedly an artistic license fictional biography of Anna Wintour of Vogue. Whether or not this fashion publishing icon is correctly or incorrectly pictured in the edited version is immaterial. Anne Hathaway plays a small town dreamer coming to the Big Apple for success in editorial writing and finds her entry level job as second PA to Meryl Streep playing the editor in chief of a fashion icon magazine which is supposed to satire Vogue. They are strong actresses in their own right who joust excitingly throughout the film They are supported by four strong performers. Stanley Tucci hopes to rise career wise in publishing and Adrian Grenier as a promising chef, both wised up at the final credits achieving this in Manhattan is not in the cards for them. Emily Blunt and Simon Baker play established fashion career folk at different professional levels each feverishly pursuing career perks and opportunities ultimately slipping through their fingers by the end. One assumes Hathaway's and Streep's characters will go their own ways, set their own personal goals and end up where they choose to be without stopping to smell the roses of acquiring personal cultural sophistication, a satisfying relationship and so on.