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Release Date:
13 July 2001 (USA)
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Tagline:
This summer go blonde! more
Plot:
When a blonde sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to law school to get him back and, once there, learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Golden Globes.
Another 6 wins
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9 nominations
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(266 articles)
Coolidge Glad To Leave The Comedy Behind To Play Cage's Stepmom
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Kirsten Dunst No Longer Good Friends With Ex-Lover Jake Gyllenhaal
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(From WENN. 20 November 2009, 12:11 AM, PST)
Kirsten Dunst No Longer Good Friends With Ex-Lover Jake Gyllenhaal
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Clueless Goes to Harvard
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Reese Witherspoon | ... | Elle Woods |
 | Luke Wilson | ... | Emmett |
 | Selma Blair | ... | Vivian |
 | Matthew Davis | ... | Warner |
 | Victor Garber | ... | Professor Callahan |
 | Jennifer Coolidge | ... | Paulette |
 | Holland Taylor | ... | Professor Stromwell |
 | Ali Larter | ... | Brooke Taylor Windham |
 | Jessica Cauffiel | ... | Margot |
 | Alanna Ubach | ... | Serena |
 | Oz Perkins | ... | Dorky David |
 | Linda Cardellini | ... | Chutney |
 | Bruce Thomas | ... | UPS Guy |
 | Meredith Scott Lynn | ... | Enid |
 | Raquel Welch | ... | Mrs. Windham Vandermark |
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Rated PG-13 for language and sexual references.
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96 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) |
Iceland:L |
Malaysia:U |
USA:PG-13 (certificate #37637) |
Finland:K-3 |
New Zealand:PG |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:PG |
Brazil:Livre |
Chile:TE |
France:U |
Germany:o.Al. (bw) |
Netherlands:AL |
Norway:A |
Peru:PT |
Portugal:M/12 |
Singapore:PG |
South Korea:12 |
Spain:T |
Sweden:Btl |
Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:12
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A perfect score on the LSAT exam is 180 therefore Elle's score of 179 puts her in the top 0.1%.
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Revealing mistakes: When Elle gets in the lift after she has been assaulted by her professor in his office (before she takes over in court), before the lift doors close Vivian's reflection can clearly be seen in the brass plaque opposite the lift before she moves into the shot and converses with Elle.
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References The Blair Witch Project (1999)
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Can't Get Me Down
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In `Legally Blonde,' – which could well be re-titled `Clueless Goes to Harvard' - the delightful Reese Witherspoon stars as a ditzy, fashion-obsessed airhead who winds up (through plot complications too elaborate to go through) taking that Ivy League law school by storm. Needless to say, there is not a single believable moment in the film, but that is generally the case with most fish-out-of-water scenarios anyway. What `Legally Blonde' does have is a warm spirit, a bubbly demeanor and a breezy charm that reflect to a tee the personality of its main character.
Although the film does not exhibit the same level of comic genius we found in `Clueless,' Witherspoon's letter-perfect rendition of the bubblehead stereotype earns the film a great deal of audience goodwill, a factor that helps us to get over some of the movie's flatter moments. For indeed, throughout the course of this tale, we do hit a number of arid stretches where we feel that we should be laughing an awful lot more than we are. In fact, `Legally Blonde' occasionally feels more like a concept in search of a movie than a full-fledged work in its own right. But, just as you are about to give up on it, the filmmakers hit upon a hilarious concept, sight gag or line of dialogue, which help to set the movie back on track.
Clearly, Witherspoon is the big selling point of this film. As an actress, she exudes such an air of intelligence, confidence and compassionate goodwill that she invests even her dumb blonde character with those seemingly paradoxical traits. `Legally Blonde' isn't always at the top of its form, but Witherspoon wins the case for the film hands down anyway.