Legally Blonde

“Boldly going where no blonde has gone.”

6.8

2001

1h 36m

Comedy

Director: Robert Luketic

Overview

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.

Trailer

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Cast

Elle Woods

Reese Witherspoon

Elle Woods

Emmetten Richmond

Luke Wilson

Emmetten Richmond

Vivian Kensington

Selma Blair

Vivian Kensington

Warner Huntington III

Matthew Davis

Warner Huntington III

Professor Callahan

Victor Garber

Professor Callahan

Paulette

Jennifer Coolidge

Paulette

Professor Stromwell

Holland Taylor

Professor Stromwell

Brooke Taylor Windham

Ali Larter

Brooke Taylor Windham

Margot

Jessica Cauffiel

Margot

Serena

Alanna Ubach

Serena

Dorky David

Osgood Perkins

Dorky David

Chutney Windham

Linda Cardellini

Chutney Windham

Reviews

gnawbone

An entertaining movie that with the title alone alerts you that it is brazenly silly, though Reese Witherspoon's character Elle Woods has challenges that make you cheer for her. Awkward social situations are well handled by the character and credit to the writers and director for resolving these with good morals. All of the major cast roles are well done.

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Andre Gonzales

Surprisingly funny and good. I was expecting this to be a dumb movie honestly. They did a good job. Yeah she was a blonde and acted like blonde, but she was legally smart at being an attorney.

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CinemaSerf

Reese Witherspoon ("Elle") is the archetypal sorority success. Gorgeous, glamorous, clever and dating the most handsome man at her school "Warner" (Matthew Davis). Then, all of a sudden he decamps to law school and leaves his naturally blonde girlfriend behind. She's having none of that, follows him to Harvard determined to win him back from his new sweetheart "Vivian" (Selma Blair) and the battle is on. She goes from being queen of the castle to struggling girl with alarming speed, and as she comes to terms with her new status. she reappraises her sense of priorities - especially when she alights of simple old "Emmett" (Luke Wilson). Not remotely her type, or is he? Perhaps if I were American, I could get more from the "frat" culture that this is predicated on, but I'm not and so it just came across to me as a pushy girl used to getting her own way, having to deal with a few bumps in the road. There is comedy, but it is pretty puerile and one only hopes Harvard has since beefed up it's entrance exams. Witherspoon is good - she evokes well something I found detestable about the character she portrays; but I'm afraid I just found it all just a bit too predictable. By no means the worst from the spate of rom-coms that started off this new millennium, but that doesn't make it good either.

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