Upgraded is a 2024 American romantic comedy film directed by Carlson Young and starring Camila Mendes, Archie Renaux, Thomas Kretschmann, Grégory Montel, Lena Olin and Marisa Tomei.^[2]

The film is a modern-day retelling of the classic fairytale "Cinderella"^[2]and was released on Amazon Prime Video on February 9, 2024. The story concerns Ana Santos, an ignored-but-ambitious intern in the New York art world whose life and career take a turn when by happenstance she is upgraded to first class on a flight to London.

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Ana is an ambitious intern, dreaming of a career in the art world while trying to impress her demanding boss, Claire. Because of the expensive cost of living in New York, Ana currently lives with her sister Vivian and Vivian's boyfriend Ronnie, who has been urging her to move out. During an auction at work, Ana notices a typo in the catalogue and informs Claire right before it was to be sold. Claire invites Ana to an upcoming London work trip to serve as an assistant to her assistants.

Suzette and Renee, Claire's two assistants, make numerous attempts to sabotage Ana. However, it tends to work out in her favor. Ana ends up with upgraded first-class tickets for her flight to London. This is where she meets a wealthy man named William. Ana accidentally misleads William into believing she is the art director of her company's New York office. Impressed, he introduces Ana to his mother Catherine, a British celebrity.

Suzette and Renee continue to try and sabotage Ana. Ana ends up at Catherine’s and finds herself in the middle of a party. 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. She grows closer to William and Catherine.

Through their connections, Ana is able to get last-minute tickets to a performance of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, a difficult task provided by Claire. This impresses Claire, who is currently facing tension with Gerard, the art director for the Paris office as they vie for the same position.

Ana attends a 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. Will catches her before she leaves and takes her to go dancing at a local bar. At the end of the night, Ana, embarrassed by where she is actually staying, has William drop her off at Claire's much nicer hotel. Before leaving, William confesses that he is falling in love with her.

Over the next week, Ana and William continue to spend time together, growing closer. He tells her he knows her job is important and that he has arranged to transfer his work to New York so that they can continue their relationship.

At the office, Claire praises Ana's hard work and promises that there will be a promotion in her future. Renee interrupts their meeting to reveal that a major client has just pulled out of their upcoming auction. That client is Catherine, and at that same moment, William arrives to surprise Ana at work. She rushes him out of the building. William is suspicious about her behaviour and tells her he had nothing to do with his mother's decision. He questions whether Ana was just using him to secure his mother's sale and breaks up with her.

Ana is then confronted by Claire, who has discovered her lie and her relationship with William's family. She is fired and escorted out of the building.

Ana visits Catherine and confesses the truth. Instead of being upset, Catherine is proud of Ana for her honesty and agrees to rejoin the auction on the condition that Ana is the one who handles the sale. Ana is re-hired and manages to sell Catherine's art for much more than expected. She goes to apologize to William, who tells her that he didn't like her because she was rich, but because he thought she was an honest person.

Ana returns to New York. 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. At the end of the night, after everyone else has left, William arrives with a suitcase.

In August 2022, it was reported that Camila Mendes and Archie Renaux were cast in the film, which entered production in the United Kingdom.^[3] The following month, it was announced that Marisa Tomei and Lena Olin were part of the cast.^[7]

Upgraded was released by Amazon Prime Video on February 9, 2024.^[8]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 77% of 47 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6/10. The website's consensus reads: "Lightly entertaining even as it hews to genre convictions, Upgraded is an appealing option for anyone seeking a good old-fashioned rom-com."^[9] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 59 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.^[10]