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The Devil Wears Prada
A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical, larger-than-life editor-in-chief of a major fashion magazine.
2006 · Directed by David Frankel · 109 min · Drama · Comedy · Screenplay in the scene database · 14 frames
Tagline
Meet Andy Sachs. A million girls would kill to have her job. She's not one of them.
Plot
Aspiring journalist Andrea "Andy" Sachs has recently graduated from Northwestern University. Despite her lack of knowledge of the fashion industry, she is hired as a junior personal assistant to Miranda Priestly, the cruel editor-in-chief of Runway magazine in New York City. Andy resolves to tolerate Miranda's abusive treatment until she can use her connections from Runway to find a journalism-focused job.
Andy fits in poorly with her superficial, fashion-forward co-workers, particularly Miranda's British senior assistant, Emily Charlton, and struggles to meet Miranda's irrational demands. After she fails to arrange for Miranda to be flown back from Miami during a hurricane, she is berated. She then approaches Runway's art director Nigel for advice, and he helps her select stylish clothes to fit the extremely fashion-conscious workplace.
Noticing Andy's increased commitment to the job, Miranda delegates more important tasks to her. Andy soon outperforms Emily, who yearns to attend Paris Fashion Week as Miranda's assistant. In preparation for the event, Emily follows extreme diets that endanger her health.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: Aline Brosh McKenna
- Cinematography: Florian Ballhaus
- Edited by: Mark Livolsi
- Music: Theodore Shapiro
- Production design: Jess Gonchor
- Produced by: Wendy Finerman
Cast
- Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly
- Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs
- Emily Blunt as Emily
- Stanley Tucci as Nigel
- Simon Baker as Christian Thompson
- Adrian Grenier as Nate
- Tracie Thoms as Lily
- Rich Sommer as Doug
- Daniel Sunjata as James Holt
- David Marshall Grant as Richard Sachs
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, French
- Studios: Fox 2000 Pictures, Wendy Finerman Productions, Dune Entertainment, Major Studio Partners
- Budget: $35,000,000
- Box office: $326,588,371
- Themes: new york city, journalist, paris, france, based on novel or book, journalism, fashion journal, assistant, job entrant, job interview, editor-in-chief
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