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Intern
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Movie propaganda
This is the story of Jocelyn Bennett (Dominique Swain), an overworked and underpaid intern and her Cinderella-like ascent from the mailroom to the boardroom at the ultra hip fashion magazine, Skirt. Through the eyes of our heroine stories of air kisses, model tantrums and crazed egos unfold.
When we meet Jocelyn, business as usual has been rudely interrupted. The magazine is under attack by a fashion spy. Someone has been leaking Skirt's stories to a competing magazine. The staff is in a state of hysteria as everyone sets out to find the culprit.
Meanwhile, Jocelyn is diverted not only by her detective efforts, but by an endless stream of busy work, leaving her barely enough time to win the heart of the magazine's dashing art director, Paul Rochester (Ben Pullen). Adding to her disadvantage is Paul's current girlfriend, Resin (Leilani Bishop), supermodel of the moment and prize possession of the magazine.
In a world where long legs are currency, it seems impossible for a smart, pretty, well-read girl to get her due. However, Jocelyn's ingenuity allows her to capture the spy, win the guy and prove to the superficial fashion world that there's more to life than a hot set of stems.
Persons of interest
- Dominique Swain .... Jocelyn Bennett
- Ben Pullen .... Paul Rochester
- Peggy Lipton .... Roxanne Rochet
- David Deblinger .... Richard Sinn
- Joan Rivers .... Dolly Bellows
- Kathy Griffin .... Cornelia Crisp
- Billy Porter .... Sebastian Niederfarb
- Anna Levine .... Antoinette De la Paix
- Paulina Porizkova .... Chi Chi Chemise
- James Urbaniak .... Olivier Di Santo
- Leilani Bishop .... Resin
- Rocco Sisto .... Pierre La Roux
- Anson Scoville .... Alex
- Bill Raymond .... Deep Throat
- André Leon Talley .... Himself
- Caroline Doyle .... Screenwriter
- Jill Kopelman .... Screenwriter
- Michael Lange .... Director
Cinematic intelligence sources
- See also The Devil wears Prada
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Theatrical report
It's not that bad, really it isn't!
Actually, that's pretty much it in a nutshell. The fashion industry exists solely because some rich people wanted to look different from some poor people. Then the rich people realised that they had so much money that they could look different every day, then several times a day... then they learnt that fashion could be used as an excuse to look different from the other rich people, the ones who could afford to buy the same clothes but with whom the first group of rich people didn't want to associate.
It's not a particularly deep industry.
Having worked in fashion on both sides of cameras, magazines, design and advertising, I am vastly qualified to speak on any aspect of the subject. Not that being unqualified ever stopped me from speaking on any subject. Ever. Intern takes the rags to riches theme, infuses it with a bit of sensible morality (this is Hollywood, remember), garnishes it with some gorgeous names and throws in a Prince Charming. There's nothing new in the story - nothing - and the execution is pure 90s (a plethora of overtly gay men, an inundation of trash fash mag slags and some hard-core capitalism) but this film has a charm to it that makes for an enjoyable viewing. Maybe it's Dominique's unimpressed delivery, maybe it's the completely impolitic characters, who cares? It works.
There's more than a nod to that icon of fashion, Absolutely fabulous, but such world-spanning epic phenomena can never be avoided. A fashion film simply must make reference and a nod's as good as a wink to a blind clothes horse. There's also an element of the supermodel film to end all supermodel films, Robert Altman's Prêt-à-porter but it's all done in such faaabulous good taste that it doesn't matter. Enjoy. Dahlings.
Security censorship classification
M (Low level coarse language)
Surveillance time
94 minutes (1:34 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
DVD rental: 10 January 2001
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