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Legally Blonde
Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods has it all, but, she wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But he dumps her before heading to Harvard Law School. Elle rallies all of her resources and gets into Harvard, determined to win him back. While there, she figures out that there is more to herself than just good looks.
2001 · Directed by Robert Luketic · 96 min · Comedy · Screenplay in the scene database · 18 frames
Tagline
Boldly going where no blonde has gone.
Plot
California University of Los Angeles sorority president Elle Woods is taken to a restaurant by her boyfriend, Warner Huntington III. She expects a proposal, but he breaks up with her instead. Intending to become a successful senator, he believes Elle is not "serious" enough for that life. He tells her that his family has five generations of U.S. Senators and that his brother, a student at Yale Law School, is engaged to a woman from the Vanderbilt family.
Elle assumes she can win Warner back by achieving the same things. After months of studying, Elle scores a near-perfect 179 on the LSAT. With that and her 4.0 GPA, she is accepted to Harvard Law School, which Warner will also attend.
During the first semester, Elle discovers that her personality completely contrasts with those of her distrusting East Coast classmates. Elle learns of Warner's engagement to his previous girlfriend, Vivian Kensington, and befriends local manicurist Paulette Bonafonté. Later, as Elle tells Warner she intends to apply for one of her professor's internships, he says she is not smart enough. Realizing that Warner will neither take her back nor take her seriously, Elle determines to demonstrate her understanding of the subject.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Kirsten Smith, Karen McCullah
- Cinematography: Anthony B. Richmond
- Edited by: Garth Craven, Anita Brandt-Burgoyne
- Music: Rolfe Kent
- Production design: Missy Stewart
- Produced by: Ric Kidney, Marc Platt
Cast
- Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods
- Luke Wilson as Emmetten Richmond
- Selma Blair as Vivian Kensington
- Matthew Davis as Warner Huntington III
- Victor Garber as Professor Callahan
- Jennifer Coolidge as Paulette
- Holland Taylor as Professor Stromwell
- Ali Larter as Brooke Taylor Windham
- Jessica Cauffiel as Margot
- Alanna Ubach as Serena
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Hungarian
- Studios: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Marc Platt Productions
- Budget: $18,000,000
- Box office: $141,778,365
- Themes: father murder, blonde, superficiality, beauty salon, law school, murder, cynical, girl power, toy dog, chihuahua dog
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