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Synopsis for

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

Andrea "Andy" Sachs, an aspiring journalist fresh out of Northwestern University, lands the
magazine job "a million girls would kill for": junior personal assistant to icy editor-in-chief
Miranda Priestly, who dominates the fashion world from her perch atop Runway magazine. She
puts up with the eccentric and humiliating requests of her boss because, she is told, if she lasts
a year in the position she will get her pick of other jobs, perhaps even the journalistic position
she truly craves.

At first, she fits in poorly among the gossipy fashionistas who make up the magazine staff. Her
lack of style or fashion knowledge and fumbling with her job make her an object of scorn around
the office. Senior assistant Emily Charlton, her coworker, is condescending to her. Gradually,
though, with the help of art director Nigel, Andrea adjusts to the position and its many perks,
including free designer clothing and other choice accessories. She begins to dress more
stylishly and do her job competently, fulfilling a seemingly impossible request of Miranda's to get
two copies of an unpublished Harry Potter manuscript to her daughters.

She also comes to prize chance encounters with attractive young writer Christian Thompson,
who helped her obtain the Potter manuscript and suggests he could help her with her career. At
the same time, however, her relationship with her boyfriend Nate, a chef working his way up the
career ladder, and other college friends suffers due to the increasing time she spends at
Miranda's beck and call.

Shortly afterwards, Andrea saves Miranda from social embarrassment at a charity benefit when
the cold-stricken Emily falters in reminding Miranda who an approaching guest is. As a result,
Miranda tells Andrea that she will accompany her to the fall fashion shows in Paris, rather than
Emily who had been looking forward to the trip for months. Miranda warns Andrea that if she
declines, it could adversely affect her future job prospects. Emily is hit by a car before Andrea
can tell Emily the next morning, making her choice moot.

During a gallery exhibit of her friend Lilly's photography, Andy again encounters Christian, who
openly flirts with her, much to the shock and disgust of Lilly, who witnesses it all. After Lilly calls
her out and walks away, Andy bumps into Nate, who, when she tells him she will be going to
Paris, is angered that she refuses to admit that she's become the girls she's made fun of and
that their relationship has taken a back seat. As a result, they break up in the middle of the
street the night before she leaves for Paris.
In Paris, Nigel tells Andrea that he has gotten a job as creative director with rising fashion star
James Holt, at Miranda's recommendation, and will finally be in charge of his own life. She also
finally succumbs to Christian's charms, and sees her boss let down her guard for the first time
as she worries about the effect an impending divorce will have on her twin daughters.

But in the morning, Andrea finds out about a plan to replace Miranda as Runway editor with
Jacqueline Follet, editor of the magazine's French edition, later that day. Despite the suffering
she has endured at her boss's behest, she attempts to warn Miranda but is seemingly rebuffed
each time.

At a luncheon later that day, however, Miranda announces that it is Jacqueline instead of Nigel
who will leave Runway for Holt. Later, when the two are being driven to a show, she explains to
a still-stunned Andrea that she was grateful for the warning but already knew of the plot to
replace her and sacrificed Nigel to keep her own job. Pleased by this display of loyalty, she tells
Andrea she sees some of herself in her. Andrea, repulsed, said she could never do to anyone
what Miranda did to Nigel, primarily as Nigel mentored Andrea. Miranda replies that she already
did, stepping over Emily when she agreed to go to Paris. If she wants to get ahead in her
career, that's what she'll have to be willing to do.

Andrea gets out of the limo at the next stop, going not into the show with Miranda but out into
the street, where instead of answering yet another call from her boss she throws her cell phone
into a nearby fountain, leaving Miranda, Runway and fashion behind.

Later, back in New York, she meets Nate for breakfast. He has accepted an offer to work as a
sous-chef in a popular Boston restaurant, and will be moving there shortly. Andrea is
disappointed but her hope is rejuvenated when he says they could work something out, implying
they will have a long-distance relationship in the future. At the film's conclusion, she has finally
been offered a job as a newspaper reporter, greatly helped by a fax from Miranda herself who
told the editor that Andrea was her "biggest disappointment ever", and if they didn't hire her they
would be idiots. Andrea calls Emily and offers her all of the clothes that she got in Paris, which
Andrea insists that she doesn't need anymore. Emily accepts and tells Andrea's replacement
she has some big shoes to fill. In the last shot, Andrea, dressed as she was at the beginning of
the film but with a bit more style, sees Miranda get into her car across the street. They
exchange looks and Miranda gives no indication of a greeting, but gives a soft smile once inside
the car, before sternly telling her chauffeur to "go!".

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