Now, I'm not going to claim that I'm too good to watch a chick
flick, or admit that I might have actually enjoyed one, but there
has to be something likeable about the movie, and this one just
doesn't have that something.
As far as I have found,
this is Melissa Carter's first credited writing, and she didn't
manage to create one likeable character. In this type of movie
that has to be one of the most important things. The somewhat
cute Brittany Murphy (who I never really noticed until now sort
of has a lazy eye) is the lead role and she plays Stacy, a young
woman whose mother has taught her to be prepared and always have
plans. She has dreams of working with Diane Sawyer, but ends up
working some job in some small Jerry Springer-type show in New
Jersey . We assume she has a job, but I don't think there is one
point in the movie where she actually contributes anything to
her work, and most of her time at work is spent talking about
her boyfriend to her co-worker Barb, played by Holly Hunter.
During
a meeting for new show ideas, someone brings up the Little Black
Book, the idea of looking through a significant other's past lovers
to find out where they've been, and learn who they really are.
When Stacy asks her boyfriend Derek, played by Ron Livingston
who sadly doesn't have a large role throughout the film, about
a past girlfriend, he tells her he doesn't want to talk about
it, and then has to go away for a few weeks.The manipulative Barb
convinces Stacy to look through Derek's palm pilot to learn about
his past girlfriends. The movie then consists of Stacy going undercover
and meeting these ex-girlfriends and learning a bunch of surprising
things about her boyfriend and what he has and hasn't told her.
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As much as I've used the term chick-flick, I'm not even sure if
that's accurate, or is any type of tag like romantic comedy. The
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in destiny or any of that crap. It really just ends up being about
a bunch of people, doing the wrong thing to get ahead.
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I can't really say that
any of the actors did a bad job, because there really wasn't anything
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although not entirely unexpected with the climax, and also avoiding
a sappy ending. But, in the end, it was just a really poorly written
movie that I can't imagine appealing much to anybody.
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