thank you sooooooooo much for the GREAT price of under a dollar! Also for the speedy service!
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Stay the Course
Added 3/3/2010
I loved this movie! It begins a little slow, but it picks up momentum and you get swept up in the "feeling". The end is amazing - I'm a sap for happy endings! Enjoy!!!
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Save your MONEY!
Added 2/11/2010
I bought this for $4.00 @ Walmart and guess why it was $4.00. This is one of the worst movies ever and the ending is horrible!!!!!! Save your money and avoid the plague of bad movies!!!! Make hollywood put out good movies for a change!!!!!!
Steve
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A Rainy Sunday Movie
Added 1/3/2010
First, this review is written with the recent death of the film's star Brittany Murphy in the back of my mind as a first-time viewer of this movie. Far from the chick-lit/rom-com that it would appear to be, the film has several agendas it's attempting to humorously convey: insecure girlfriend whose snooping creates havoc with herself and her beau's ex-girlfriends; the back-biting work environment of a low-brow talk show set (done before and better in, say, 'Hope Floats' and 'The 24 Hour Woman'); and the personal striving of the lead character a la 'Working Girl'.
The romantic comedy aspect doesn't grab you simply because the lead couple, Brittany Murphy and Ron Livingston, have no real chemistry; mainly because their relationship isn't really seen since they're in separate locations for much of the film. They have a dog in common, complete with cutesy cut-aways (dog barking, dog looking quizically, dog licking himself, dog pulling the gaunt Murphy down the sidewalk, etc.) that make them seem like any generically mismatched urban couple with a big, cute dog as the binding glue and who eat a lot of take-out. In that sense of the story, the box cover and the concept doesn't really ring true.
The working aspect of the film with Murphy's character, whose idols are the lusty yet patrician Carly Simon and Diane Sawyer, shares space with the romantic comedy plot. Murphy wants to make it from the New Jersey set of her trashy talk show employer to network news. Her co-worker, played by Holly Hunter, appears to take her under her wing and become an older BFF, gamely nudging her along with a potential talk-show idea of what happens when one starts going into her boyfriend's Palm. From there the film goes into a more dramatic tone that's one part Ally McBeal and one-part 'Network'-no spoilers here- and it's worth watching for the final showdown of sorts.
The performances are what sell the film. Brittany Murphy, rest her professional and likable soul, tries her best to carry the movie but is somewhat of a wan, spindly heroine who often comes across, via drawn-out scenes of her paranoid snooping and scheming, as somewhat manic and jangly. She's a likable and game actress but the enthusiasm and spark of her work in 'Uptown Girls', for example, is noticably missing. It seems at times like it's an effort for her but she does a game job and the end credits can't help but be sad in hindsight at such a premature loss of life and talent.
Holly Hunter, at first seems out of place in the film with her Oscar-winning chops, is all glam, 'Thirteen'-style ringlets and sinewy grit in hip-hugging jeans as an associate producer who could be the polar opposite of her iconic 'Broadcast News' character. Her character choices in the film, the way she can make a cigarette a prop or randomly spin Murphy in a chair, are unscripted touches that don't take over the film but show commitment. Holly Hunter is the 50-Foot Talent who takes this film and makes it her own, gamely relinquishing it at the end so that Murphy can take the final bow. Her performance and her character's sneaking up on you is worth viewing the movie for alone.
'Little Black Book' isn't bad despite the clumsy moments and would seem right at home as a rainy day Sunday movie or a fan favorite for admirers of its stars. It's a bit too cutesy and elaborate to truly hammer down its message but it's not all that far-fetched, six years later.
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people don't know what to make of this movie?
Added 8/1/2009
I looked at the spread of reviews
and it is understandable:
reality TV as a chick flick is just hard to deal with.
I'm a really Holly Hunter fan and
she is the villain here?
But Brittany Murphy is a young sexy Holly Hunter.
When faced with her investigation of her boy friend's
old girl friends, she just takes the wrong track
and pays for it?
I kind of liked the movie which is entertaining,but
the result is a modern social decay theme?
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