Upgraded

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Upgraded is a romantic comedy movie from 2024, helmed by Carlson Young and featuring a cast including Camila Mendes, Archie Renaux, Thomas Kretschmann, Grégory Montel, Lena Olin, and Marisa Tomei. This film presents a contemporary interpretation of the timeless fairy tale ‘Cinderella’ and became available on Amazon Prime Video on February 9, 2024.

Upgraded Plot Summary

Ana is an ambitious intern, dreaming of a career in the art world while trying to impress her demanding boss, Claire. The next morning Claire invites Ana to serve as the assistant to her assistants on an upcoming work trip to London. Upset by Ana’s ambition, Claire’s two assistants Suzette and Renee wait until the group is boarding their flight to reveal that they have booked Ana an economy ticket for a flight that leaves 4 hours later. Ana and William end up sitting next to each other on the flight to London and hit it off. During the flight, Ana accidentally leads William to believe she is the art director of her company’s New York office. He is very impressed and when they land, introduces Ana to his mother, Catherine, who is a British celebrity. Suzette and Renee continue to sabotage Ana, assigning her an office in the basement and a room at a separate cheaper hotel. There she sees Catherine’s extensive art collection, meets a famous painter, and continues to lie about being the director of a New York auction house.Suzette and Renee task Ana with getting last-minute tickets to a performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, while continuing to assign her all of the work they don’t want to do. William also tells her that there is a party being thrown that evening and his mother, Catherine, wants Ana to attend. Ana runs back to the London office and arrives just as Claire asks Suzette if she got the tickets. Suzette is forced to admit that she was not able to and is further embarrassed when Ana shows her up and turns in the tickets to Claire. Ana attends the party, with William and Catherine, in a designer dress that she “borrowed” from Claire. When she suddenly sees Claire arrive with Suzette and Renee, she is scared her lie will be revealed and attempts to run off. At the end of the night, William wants to take Ana back to her hotel. Over the next week, Ana and William continue to spend time together, growing closer and developing their relationship.At the office, Claire praises Ana’s hard work and promises that there will be a promotion in her future. At that same moment, William arrives to surprise Ana at work and she rushes him out of the building. William tells Ana that he had nothing to do with his mother’s decision and doesn’t understand why she is acting so strange. When Ana goes back into the building she is confronted by Claire who has discovered her lie and her relationship with William’s family. Ana visits Catherine and confesses that she is not the successful art director she was pretending to be. Ana is re-hired and manages to sell Catherine’s art for much more than expected. Ana returns to New York and six months later she has not heard from William but is thriving in her career. Ana throws a party to celebrate the opening of her own art gallery.