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Hell On Heels Based on the best-selling novel, The Devil Wears Prada stars two-time Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep as high-powered fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly. Anne Hathaway also stars, as Miranda's new assistant. A small-town girl in her first job out of college, trying to navigate a world she's only glimpsed in print - while surviving her impossibly demanding new boss... 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, Runaway 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 dismay, she can talk the talk, walk the walk 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? A scathing comedy satire of fasionistas and cut-throat corporate excess boasting a grandstanding central turn by Meryl Streep as the ultimate boss from Hell, The Devil Wears Prada is based on the novel by Lauren Weisberger who once worked as an assistant to real-life Vogue editor Anna Wintour.

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The Devil Wears Prada
By Vikki Lusby, Blockbuster.co.uk

Hell On Heels

A coming of age tale for all fashionistas. Anne Hathaway ( Becoming Jane, Brokeback Mountain ) stars as Andy (Andrea) Sachs, a ‘plain Jane’ student fresh from college who has a dream to become a journalist in New York. Having applied for numerous positions, she ends up at a publishing house HR department, being offered interviews for a computer magazine and 'Runway' - THE fashion magazine of New York.

After an 'interesting' interview Andy is taken on as the second assistant to the editor in chief, however she soon learns that not only is she in for a very bumpy ride, she won't be using her journalistic skills. So starts the seamlessly impossible task of keeping Amanda Priestley's ( Meryl Streep ) world ticking over like clockwork. With the inevitable hickups Andy soon decides that she needs to swap the plain image for a more elegant and glamorous style if she is to gain the respect of her boss and peers.

So commences the life that every PA dreads, being at the constant beck and call of the most demanding boss (EVER). Andy knows nothing about fashion and has never even read 'Runway' magazine, but firmly believes that a year working for Amanda Priestley will land her any journalistic position she could want.... if she can stick it out.

With all the demands put upon her professionally something has got to give and it's Andy's boyfriend Nathe and her friends.

Eventually, Andy starts to become more efficient than Emily ( Emily Blunt ) the first assistant to Amanda Priestley and following an unfortunate stream of events replaces Emily as Amanda's assistant at the Paris fashion week. So comes the crunch for Andy, does she stay working for Amanda or does she pursue her dream of becoming a serious journalist..... and what about Nathe?

Not quite on the lines of Ugly Betty, this is more of a Working Girl ( Melanie Griffith ) movie for the new millennium. With a fantastic performance by virtual newcomer Emily Blunt, the movie has the right level of high and low moments mixed in with downright hilarity.
Great to curl up on the sofa with... and don't forget your chocs.