The Uptown Girl trope as used in popular culture. You know the story. It's a love story. Our lovers are from different worlds — one wealthy, one not.

Uptown Girls is a 2003 comedy-drama film directed by Boaz Yakin, starring Brittany Murphy and Dakota Fanning. The plot mainly involves Molly Gunn (Murphy) …

Basic Trope: A rich person and a poor person fall in love with each other. Straight: Wealthy socialite Alice and welfare claimant Bob fall in love with each ...

So Okay, It's Average: The acting isn't great and the story is pretty flimsy, but there's heart in the characters by the end. It all comes together to be a ...

True love overcomes all obstacles, including little things like money and caste in the tale of the peasant falling in love with the princess.

Huey was first written to be more bossy and unlikeable, but was eventually softened to be more fun, so as to make it more believable that Molly would be friends ...

"I'm not sure I want to be a prince anymore, cause then we would have to go our separate ways. I don't want that, I want to stay close to you, ...

A page for describing Laconic: Uptown Girl. A love story where one partner is rich and one partner is poor.

Aspiring skater boy Rich Diggle sets his sights on winning Penny's affections. He starts by directing snark at her, in front of Sara and Michelle, ...

Vi rebuffing Caitlyn's offer to help in the pouring rain is meant to resemble them "breaking up" even though their relationship hasn't properly started yet, ...