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The Devil Wears Prada
The Devil Wears Prada
It is a 2006 comedy-drama film.
It stars Anne Hathaway as Andrea Sachs, a recent college graduate who goes to New York City and gets a job as a co-assistant to powerful and demanding fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl steep.
Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci co-star in support of two leads, as catty co-assistant Emily Charlton, and critical yet supportive Art Director Nigel.
Andrea "Andy" Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is an aspiring journalist fresh out of North-western Uni. Despite that she knows a little about the fashion industry, she lands the job “A million girls would kill for”: junior personal assistant to Miranda Priestly (Meryl Steep), the icy editor-in-chief of Runway fashion magazine. Despite having little knowledge of fashion, Andy puts up with Miranda’s bizarre and humiliating treatment in hopes of getting a job as a reporter or writer somewhere else. At first, Andy fumbles with her job and fits in poorly with her catty co-workers especially Miranda’s British senior Emily Charlton (Emily Blunt).
During a dinner with her father, who came to visit her in New York City, Miranda calls her: the airports, in Florida where she is, are all closed due to a hurricane but she needs to get home and orders Andy to get her home somehow. Andy tries every airline company there is, but none of them are flying out because of the weather. When Miranda does arrive back at the office she tells Andy she has disappointed her more than any other of her previous assistants. Andy has a talk with Runway's art director Nigel (Stanley Tucci), who gives a whole new perspective of Miranda, her work and fashion in general. Andy decides to change and, with Nigel's help, gradually learns her responsibilities and begins to dress more stylishly. Slowly Andy begins to sacrifice her personal life to her career. Miranda notices the change in Andy and gives her a new task: delivering "The Book" (a mock-up of the next edition's feature spreads) to her Upper

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