
When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverly Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Mary, the younger sister, is mortified: spoiled by her dad, ignorant of Spanish, scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, and she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder sister Nora, a law student, gets a job as a legal intern, and... (Full plot summary below)
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When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverly Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Mary, the younger sister, is mortified: spoiled by her dad, ignorant of Spanish, scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, and she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder sister Nora, a law student, gets a job as a legal intern, and her supervisor Edward, brother of the grasping sister-in-law, promptly falls for her. Slowly the sisters realize what a rich place the barrio is at the same time that they get bruised in the contact sport of love.
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| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfI'd hate to learn the producers struggled to amp the ethnicity of the actresses when that precious time clearly should've been devoted to reworking a wheezy, clumsy script. |
| Common Sense MediaMelissa CamachoJane Austen update with Latino twist offers laughs, romance. |
| VarietyJoe LeydonBased loosely and playfully on Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," From Prada to Nada is a predictable but pleasant comedy. |
| Time OutBen KenigsbergIf the effort to shoehorn Austen's social commentary into a modern context sometimes seems nonsensical or forced, the actors-especially now-grown Spy Kid Vega-have charm to spare. |
| Movies.comDave WhiteIt's smarter than you think it's going to be based on its idiotic title and, more importantly, consistently gets by on its good-natured and warm-hearted charms. |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleThe regrettably titled From Prada to Nada has more in common with a slapped-together TV movie than a timeless comedy of manners. |
| Toronto StarJason AndersonThe broad humour and cultural caricatures in the film's opening moments will be especially dispiriting to any English literature professors in the audience. |
| The New York TimesMike HaleAngel Gracia, whose career has been in European music videos and commercials, imbues his feature directing debut with a televisionlike crispness and disposability. |
| The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonSimply put, From Prada To Nada is "Sense And Sensibility For Dummies." |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovWhile this is no "Clueless," to be sure, it's also, thankfully, no "Born in East L.A." |