Entertaining look at the fashion business.

Rating: Null/10 (15 December 2006)

I didn't know much about this movie as I began watching it, but I knew with Meryl Streep in it I would like it. In her role here as difficult fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly she shows us once again why she is among a rare few who are the best in the business.
But the story is really about young and smart Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) from the midwest, who turned down a chance to study law at Stanford for the lure of journalism in NYC. She is interviewed for a job as an assistant to Miranda, without even knowing who Miranda is. There is nothing about her fashion sense (none) that would make her right for this job, but Miranda hires her anyway, not happy with he last few.
Brit Emily Blunt plays Emily, Miranda's other assistant. Many refer to this movie as a comedy, but it really isn't. Oh, there are many funny things in it, but it really is more a serious look at the fashion industry, and how a young woman 'comes of age' in this difficult situation.
SPOILERS. Andy eventually begins to dress the part, and with her strong desire to prove Miranda wrong does everything she can to be the best. Even securing copies of the unpublished manuscript of the next Harry Potter book for Miranda's twin daughters. But her boyfriends and other friends take a back seat and relationships suffer. Andy finally realizes what is important, walks away from Miranda and the fashion industry, and gets a job with a newspaper. The hiring editor tells her, 'Miranda says you were her biggest disappointment, and we would have to be crazy not to hire you.'