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Legally Blonde

PG-13
Genre: Comedy, Kids/Family, Romance, Other
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In her senior year as a Southern California college student, girlish sorority president Elle Woods (Witherspoon) majors in fashion merchandising and is seriously in love with her boyfriend, Warner Huntington III (Davis), who will attend Harvard Law School next year. She excitedly expects him to ask her to marry him, but instead he breaks up with her, saying he needs a more "serious" girlfriend for his legal and political career. Desperate to win Warner back, Elle studies for and passes the LSATs, applies to Harvard Law with a sexy video essay, and is accepted. At Harvard, her fellow students look down on her and Warner is engaged to another student, Vivian (Blair). When Vivian tricks Elle into attending a party in a Playboy Bunny costume, Elle has a discussion with Warner and finally realizes he will never respect her. Now determined to succeed on her own, Elle studies hard and wins an internship with Professor Callahan (Garber), as do Warner and Vivian. They will work with Callahan and an associate, attorney Emmett Richmond (Wilson), to defend Brooke Taylor-Wyndham (Larter), a famous fitness instructor accused of murdering her billionaire husband, Hayworth Wyndham. Brooke was once Elle's fitness instructor and a member of her sorority. Elle believes Brooke is innocent, but Brooke’s stepdaughter Chutney (Cardellini) and the household "cabana boy" Enrique (Serano) claim that they saw Brooke standing over Wyndham's dead body, covered in his blood. Brooke refuses to provide an alibi, but when Elle visits her in prison, she admits that she had liposuction on the day of the murder. Public knowledge of this would ruin Brooke's reputation as a fitness instructor, so Elle agrees to keep this secret and refuses to tell it to Callahan. Impressed by her integrity, Vivian starts to befriend Elle. The case against Brooke begins to weaken when Enrique correctly identifies Elle's shoe style. Elle deduces that he is gay, and Emmett tricks him into identifying his boyfriend in court, proving that his testimony about having an affair with Brooke was a lie. Impressed by her performance, Callahan discusses Elle's future with her, but he makes sexual advances on her, which she rejects. Vivian lashes out at Elle after seeing Callahan's attempt but not Elle's rejection, convincing Elle that she will never be taken seriously. Elle decides to quit law school, but her tough female instructor, Professor Stromwell (Taylor), encourages her to continue. Emmett explains Elle's encounter with Callahan to Vivian and Brooke, Elle returns to court, and Brooke fires Callahan, hiring Elle as her new attorney with Emmett supervising. In cross-examination, Chutney claims to have been taking a shower and washing her hair at the time of the murder, with the noise drowning out the gunshot, but she also says she had her hair permed earlier that day. Washing her hair shortly after the perm would have ruined her curls, yet the perm is still intact. Chutney finally breaks down in tears and confesses to accidentally shooting Hayworth because she thought he was Brooke. She hated Brooke for marrying her father at such a young age. Brooke is exonerated and Chutney is arrested for murder. After the trial, Warner tries to reconcile with Elle, but she rejects him, explaining that she needs a boyfriend who is less of a "bonehead" in her new career. The epilogue shows that Elle graduated with high honors, is the class-elected speaker at the ceremony, and has been invited into one of Boston's best law firms. Vivian is now Elle's best friend and has called off her engagement with Warner, who graduated near the bottom of the class. Emmett has started his own practice, is now Elle's boyfriend, and will propose to her that night.
Screenplay: Amanda Brown , Karen McCullah Lutz , Kirsten Smith
Studio: MGM
DVD Release: 2001-09-22 00:00:00.0
Tagline: This summer go blonde!
Synopsis
In her senior year as a Southern California college student, girlish sorority president Elle Woods (Witherspoon) majors in fashion merchandising and is seriously in love with her boyfriend, Warner Huntington III (Davis), who will attend Harvard Law School next year. She excitedly expects him to ask her to marry him, but instead he breaks up with her, saying he needs a more "serious" girlfriend for his legal and political career. Desperate to win Warner back, Elle studies for and passes the LSATs, applies to Harvard Law with a sexy video essay, and is accepted. At Harvard, her fellow students look down on her and Warner is engaged to another student, Vivian (Blair). When Vivian tricks Elle into attending a party in a Playboy Bunny costume, Elle has a discussion with Warner and finally realizes he will never respect her. Now determined to succeed on her own, Elle studies hard and wins an internship with Professor Callahan (Garber), as do Warner and Vivian. They will work with Callahan and an associate, attorney Emmett Richmond (Wilson), to defend Brooke Taylor-Wyndham (Larter), a famous fitness instructor accused of murdering her billionaire husband, Hayworth Wyndham. Brooke was once Elle's fitness instructor and a member of her sorority. Elle believes Brooke is innocent, but Brooke’s stepdaughter Chutney (Cardellini) and the household "cabana boy" Enrique (Serano) claim that they saw Brooke standing over Wyndham's dead body, covered in his blood. Brooke refuses to provide an alibi, but when Elle visits her in prison, she admits that she had liposuction on the day of the murder. Public knowledge of this would ruin Brooke's reputation as a fitness instructor, so Elle agrees to keep this secret and refuses to tell it to Callahan. Impressed by her integrity, Vivian starts to befriend Elle. The case against Brooke begins to weaken when Enrique correctly identifies Elle's shoe style. Elle deduces that he is gay, and Emmett tricks him into identifying his boyfriend in court, proving that his testimony about having an affair with Brooke was a lie. Impressed by her performance, Callahan discusses Elle's future with her, but he makes sexual advances on her, which she rejects. Vivian lashes out at Elle after seeing Callahan's attempt but not Elle's rejection, convincing Elle that she will never be taken seriously. Elle decides to quit law school, but her tough female instructor, Professor Stromwell (Taylor), encourages her to continue. Emmett explains Elle's encounter with Callahan to Vivian and Brooke, Elle returns to court, and Brooke fires Callahan, hiring Elle as her new attorney with Emmett supervising. In cross-examination, Chutney claims to have been taking a shower and washing her hair at the time of the murder, with the noise drowning out the gunshot, but she also says she had her hair permed earlier that day. Washing her hair shortly after the perm would have ruined her curls, yet the perm is still intact. Chutney finally breaks down in tears and confesses to accidentally shooting Hayworth because she thought he was Brooke. She hated Brooke for marrying her father at such a young age. Brooke is exonerated and Chutney is arrested for murder. After the trial, Warner tries to reconcile with Elle, but she rejects him, explaining that she needs a boyfriend who is less of a "bonehead" in her new career. The epilogue shows that Elle graduated with high honors, is the class-elected speaker at the ceremony, and has been invited into one of Boston's best law firms. Vivian is now Elle's best friend and has called off her engagement with Warner, who graduated near the bottom of the class. Emmett has started his own practice, is now Elle's boyfriend, and will propose to her that night.
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