Legally Blonde

"Boldly going where no blonde has gone."

2001 1h 36m EN

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6.8

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★6.8TMDB · 4,749

Comedy

Synopsis

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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.

“Boldly going where no blonde has gone.”

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Cast

Reese Witherspoon
Elle Woods
Luke Wilson
Emmetten Richmond
Selma Blair
Vivian Kensington
Matthew Davis
Warner Huntington III
Victor Garber
Professor Callahan
Jennifer Coolidge
Paulette
Holland Taylor
Professor Stromwell
Ali Larter
Brooke Taylor Windham

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Robert Luketic
Writers: Kirsten Smith, Karen McCullah
Languages: English, Hungarian
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Made its money back 7.9× over at the box office.

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2 / 8

ERA

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25 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Hungarian.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Legally Blonde Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Robert Luketic, shot by Anthony B. Richmond. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Rolfe Kent. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Garth Craven shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Reese Witherspoon and Luke Wilson and Selma Blair carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Robert Luketic directs. Anthony B. Richmond behind the camera. Rolfe Kent scores. Garth Craven cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Hungarian.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Made its money back 7.9× over at the box office.
225 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Hungarian.
4Part of the "Legally Blonde Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Robert Luketic, shot by Anthony B. Richmond. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Rolfe Kent. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Garth Craven shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Reese Witherspoon and Luke Wilson and Selma Blair carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Boldly going where no blonde has gone.".
10IMDB entry: tt0250494 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 13 themes, including "father murder", "blonde", "superficiality", "beauty salon".
12Released under 11 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Anthony B. Richmond
Original score: Rolfe Kent
Editing: Garth Craven
Production design: Missy Stewart
Costume design: Sophie de Rakoff
Makeup / hair: Linda Arnold
Sound: Marc Fishman
Runtime: 96 min · 1h 36m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $18,000,000
Box office: $141,778,365
Return: 788% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Legally Blonde (2001)

Part of

Legally Blonde Collection

Legally Blonde tells the comical adventures of Elle Woods, portrayed by Reese Witherspoon in the series films, a blonde California University of Los Angeles sorority president who enrolls in law school and takes on the world with a distinct pink flare.

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gnawbone2021-07-10
★ 7/10
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.
Andre Gonzales2023-07-10
★ 7/10
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.
CinemaSerf2023-09-02
★ 6/10
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.