Meryl Streep is deliciously devilish

Rating: 8/10 (1 July 2006)

Anne Hathaway plays a sweet person who finds herself employed in the fashion world, a place full of shallow, bitter, miserable, stuck-up, Machiavellian snobs. Why would she want to work there one day? Nevertheless, determined not to quit, she does a better and better job, while those around her accuse her of selling her soul. I thought the movie was pretty funny. Meryl Streep is such a powerful editrix she gets a laugh with a dry eyebrow-raise. Hathaway was a sympathetic protagonist. I kept rooting for her to wake up and realize she's better than everyone around her and needs to quit the magazine now, NOW! Stanley Tucci is really good as the sniping art director who eventually takes Hathaway under his wing so she can survive. I should mention my wife hated it. She said it was a movie about a good person who slowly loses her integrity while everyone around here is mean and gets away with it.