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Legally Blonde is a 2001 comedy film starring Reese Witherspoon, produced by Mark Platt for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios and directed by Robert Luketic.

The movie, which was seen by many as part of the "Go girl!" movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s, is based on a book by Amanda Brown of her unpleasant time at Stanford Law School as the spoiled child of a name partner of Brown & Bain, and has spawned a 2003 sequel, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde
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Although the film's setting is Harvard University, the movie was actually filmed at UCLA; the real Harvard only appears briefly in certain aerial shots.

While Elle is a sister of Delta Nu sorority in the movie, the real sorority Delta Gamma is the sorority mentioned in the book.

A stage musical titled Legally Blonde: The Musical will premiere on Broadway in early 2007, presented by Hal Luftig and Fox Theatricals, producers of the not-dissimilar Broadway musical Thoroughly Modern Millie. The score is by Nell Benjamin and Laurence O'Keefe. O'Keefe is the composer/lyricist of Bat Boy: The Musical.

Plot

Legally Blonde is the story of a rich girl, Elle Woods, who enjoys fast cars, credit cards, and shopping sprees with her friends in Beverly Hills. Her favorite color is pink, which is the predominant color of most of her possessions.

She applies to Harvard Law School (Stanford University in the book) to follow her boyfriend and prove to everyone that she is more than a free-spending, free-spirited young woman. Elle scores high enough on the Law School Admissions Test to be accepted to the school, and her unusual application videotape wins the approval of the admissions board. She brings her pet chihuahua with her and expects to find happiness at Harvard, but she is met by skepticism of her abilities to graduate from the school.

Things do not turn out as easy as she believed they would at Harvard Law. She is assigned to the difficult case of a young woman (a member of the same sorority as Elle) who is accused of the murder of her older, wealthy husband. Meanwhile, Elle finds out that her ex-boyfriend is engaged, and her professor hits on her.

Eventually she finds the love of Emmett, a graduate of Harvard Law, who encourages Elle to stay when she thinks about returning to California.

Her professor is fired by the accused, and Elle takes over. She discovers that the one witness who was being used by the prosecutors is actually a gay man who did not maintain a relationship with the accused female as the prosecutors asserted, and who had been perjuring himself on the stand. Using her beauty expertise, she makes the victim's daughter confess to the crime, thereby proving her client's innocence.

Tagline: This summer, go blonde!

Cast

Reese Witherspoon
– Elle Woods
Luke Wilson
– Emmett Richmond
Selma Blair
– Vivian Thelma Kensington
Matthew Davis
– Warner Huntington III
Victor Garber
– Professor Callahan
Jennifer Coolidge
– Paulette Bonafonté
Holland Taylor
– Professor Stromwell
Ali Larter
– Brooke Taylor Windham
Jessica Cauffiel
– Margot
Alanna Ubach
– Serena
Oz Perkins – 'Dorky' David Kidney
Linda Cardellini
– Chutney Windham
Bruce Thomas – UPS Guy
Meredith Scott Lynn – Enid Wexler
Raquel Welch
– Mrs. Windham Vandermark

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