Everybody's had a boss like Miranda Priestly. Well, maybe not exactly like Miranda Priestly. She's definitely the boss from you-know-where.

Miranda (Meryl Streep) is the powerful editor of Runway, a famous fashion magazine in New York City. She's an ice queen who throws things (i.e. her coats and purses) at her assistants, rattles off tasks to be done immediately, and demands "the new Harry Potter" in "three hours". No, not the new book in bookstores. The unpublished manuscript of her next book. It's for her twins. So get two copies.

Andrea "Andy" Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is a small-town girl fresh out of college who comes to the big city hoping to write for "The New Yorker". Instead, she lands the unfortunate job as Miranda's second assistant, working closely with Miranda's first assistant, Emily (Emily Blunt).

Emily's got that deer-in-the-headlights look, and tells Andy she'll need to ditch the college girl duds, be on call to Miranda 24/7, and for God's sake, never leave the office phone unattended. Or your cell phone, for that matter. There's no telling when Miranda might call with an important message. ("Pick up my car." Click. Never mind that you have no idea where the car is.)

Lending romance to the story is Andy's live-in boyfriend, Nate (Entourage's Adrian Grenier). He has a permanent three-day stubble and loves Andy, but sees the girl slipping away from him, especially as she dons expensive boots, jets off to Paris with Miranda, and strikes up a friendship with Christian (Simon Baker), a famous writer for New York Magazine.

THE WRAP-UP: Based on the best-selling novel by Lauren Weisberger (about her experience with the almighty Vogue editor, Anna Wintour), this might be the one instance where the movie is indeed better than the book. Streep chews up the scenery with ruthless zeal, and Hathaway is lovely and convincing as a girl on the brink of her life. Stanley Tucci steals every scene as Nigel, the mag's fashion editor who has a good heart and takes Andy under his impeccably dressed wing. This movie is fun and frothy from start to finish. But it's definitely a chick-flick!

PARENTS SHOULD KNOW: Rated PG-13 for some sensuality, there's also some language issues (the A, S, and H words), drinking, and implied sex in a few scenes. Still, I think it's ok for kids 12 and older.