Product Description

In the dizzying world of New York fashion where size zero is the new 2 six is the new 8 and a bad hair day can end a career Runway Magazine is the Holy Grail. Overseen with a finely manicured fist by Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) the most powerful woman in fashion Runway is a fearsome gauntlet for anyone who wants to make it in the industry. To make Runway the fashion bible of New York and therefore the world Miranda has let nothing stand in her way including a long line of assistants that didn t make the cut. It s a job no self-respecting person can survive yet it s an opportunity a million young women in New York would kill for.A stint as Miranda s assistant could blast-open the doors for recent college graduate Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway). More college drab than haute couture she stands alone among the small army of Clackers on staff at Runway superslim fashion divas clacking their stilettos down the halls of the magazine s Manhattan headquarters. But when Andy comes in for the job it dawns on her that making it in this industry will take more than drive and determination.And her ultimate test stands before her in head-to-toe Prada.Miranda can spin the fashion world like a basketball but has a devil of a time finding and keeping a good assistant. Andy is completely wrong for the job. But she has something the rest of them don t: she refuses to fail.To become the perfect assistant Andy will need to make herself over in Miranda s image. Soon much to her boyfriend s (Adrian Grenier) dismay she can talk the talk walk the walk (in flawless Manolo s) and never again confuse Dolce with Gabbana. But the more of life she sees through Miranda s eyes the more she begins to grasp that Miranda s world is a fabulous but lonely one and that sometimes great success depends on great sacrifice but at what cost?System Requirements:Run Time: 110 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG-13 UPC: 024543374404 Manufacturer No: 2237440

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #839 in DVD
• Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
• Released on: 2006-12-12
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dubbed in: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 109 minutes

Amazon.com
This clever, funny big-screen adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's best-seller takes some of the snarky bite out of the chick lit book, but smoothes out the characters' boxy edges to make a more satisfying movie. There's no doubt The Devil Wears Prada belongs to Meryl Streep, who turns in an Oscar-worthy (seriously!) strut as the monster editor-in-chief of Runway, an elite fashion magazine full of size-0, impossibly well-dressed plebes. This makes new second-assistant Andrea (Anne Hathaway), who's smart but an unacceptable size 6, stick out like a sore thumb. Streep has a ball sending her new slave on any whimsical errand, whether it's finding the seventh (unpublished) Harry Potter book or knowing what type she means when she wants "skirts." Though Andrea thumbs her nose at the shallow world of fashion (she's only doing the job to open doors to a position at The New Yorker someday), she finds herself dually disgusted yet seduced by the perks of the fast life. The film sends a basic message: Make work your priority, and you'll be rich and powerful... and lonely. Any other actress would have turned Miranda into a scenery-chewing Cruella, but Streep's underplayed, brilliant comic timing make her a fascinating, unapologetic character. Adding frills to the movie's fun are Stanley Tucci as Streep's second-in-command, Emily Blunt (My Summer of Love) as the overworked first assistant, Simon Baker as a sexy writer, and breathtaking couture designs any reader of Vogue would salivate over. -- Ellen A. Kim

Beyond The Devil Wears Prada

The Devil Wears Prada: A Novel

The Devil Wears Prada Soundtrack

Prada Handbags

Stills from The Devil Wears Prada (click for larger image)

On the DVD
It becomes apparent on the DVD's bonus features that The Devil Wears Prada's production was more than a little similar to the shoots for TV's Sex and the City. For one, there's director David Frankel, who in one featurette reveals he learned the importance of getting plenty of footwear shots from his stint on the HBO comedy. Then there's costume designer Patricia Fields (also from SATC) who provides the most valuable contribution to the DVD's commentary track (by telling you who designed everyone's outfit in any given scene) and is the subject of her own featurette. The many deleted scenes are worth a watch, particularly one in which Miranda actually thanks Andy for saving her from a publicly humiliating moment (which was likely cut because it made Miranda too soft). A gag reel contains many high-heeled spills by Hathaway, and numerous experimental takes by Streep and Tucci, who each turn out to have ad-libbed the best lines in the movie. Also entertaining: man-on-the-street stories about true-life bosses from hell. "Gird your loins," indeed. --Ellen A. Kim

Customer Reviews

The Movie is Much Better than the Book
The film adaptation for the novel, made this a much more interesting story line, and much more believable than the novel. For those that have read the book, you'll probably like the move better as it's a better story.

The casting for this moving was pretty right on, however the casting for the character Christian seemed way off. While charming, he was much older and much less attractive than expected - I and found it a little unvbelievable that he would turn Andie's head in any way. I had actually hoped this character would have a bigger role in the movie based on what I read in the book. This character could have been removed from the movie and wouldn't have made a different. Because of the casting, he should have been.

Meryl Streep is fabulous and nails this character perfectly as does Ann Hathaway. The clothes in the movie are great and it's a great story - just not one of the best movies ever. I would give it 3.5 stars out of 5.

My wifes second favorite movie.
Behind Pretty Woman this is my wifes favorite movie. I even liked it, but don't tell anyone.

Inintentionally depressing
This is the heart-chilling story of an intelligent young woman with a lot of potential--if a somewhat tenuous grasp on her own identity--who, through the course of the movie, has everything that was interesting or endearing stripped from her by an unfortunate expedition into a superfluous industry.

This, in and of itself, would not be so bad except for the fact that the viewer is supposed to feel good for her by the end. This movie would have made a great tragedy. It could have been a fantastic commentary about how many young college graduates, thrust into the real world without an adequate transition period, become the prey of a business world that eschews substance in favor of form, and are forced to take on scripted roles that crush the individual potential they once had. Instead, this movie celebrates this process, and for that it is saddening.

The script, on top of its depressing advocacy of modern materialism, was banal. From watching to the ten minute mark, just about anyone will be able to predict the denouement. It is utterly uncompelling as a story, and offers no memorable insights. The one mark in its favor is that the acting is good. The two leads do an impressive job with the sub-par material from which they had to work.

Overall, however, the cringe-worthy message and the hackneyed storyline make this a downright bad movie. It was painful to watch, because I liked Hathaway's character at the beginning of the movie, and I was insulted that I was supposed to applaud the descent into shallowness and frivolity and exposed the weakness of her character.