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.

I guess that's as good a concept as any for a chick-type movie, but they don't really manage to do anything interesting or humourous with it. Only once did they create an awkward situation that had a little bit of comic effect. The main character basically lies a lot, and overreacts to a bunch of things. In fact, there really isn't anything memorable at all about the entire film.

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 film isn't romantic in the least, nor does it leave you believing 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.

I can't really say that any of the actors did a bad job, because there really wasn't anything to work with. I guess it gets points for doing something different, 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.