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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, has spawned a book, Legally Blonde, and a 2003 sequel, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde.
Although the film's setting is Harvard University, the movie was actually filmed at USC; the real Harvard only appears briefly in certain aerial shots.
Plot
Legally Blonde is the story of a rich girl, Elle, who goes to Harvard Law School to prove her family and her boyfriend that she is more than a free-spending, free-spirited young woman. Elle enjoys fast cars, credit cards, and shopping sprees with her friends in Beverly Hills. She also enjoys the color pink, which predominates most of her possesions.
Elle scores high enough on the Law School Admissions Test to be accepted to Harvard Law, where she plans to join her boyfriend. She and her chihuahua travel across the country expecting to find happiness at Harvard. However, she is met with different types of people there, some of whom are skeptic of her abilities to graduate the school.
Things do not turn out as easy as she believed they would at Harvard. She is assigned to the case of a young woman who is acussed of the murder of her older, wealthy husband, and she finds out that her boyfriend had been cheating on her. To top it all, her boss and teacher tried to have sex with her by offering her passing grades as long as she went to bed with him.
At Harvard, she finds the love of another law student, who goes as far as quitting with her when the depressed Elle thinks about returning to California.
Her boss and teacher is requested to leave the murder trial by the acussed, and Elle takes over. There, 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 believed and who had been perjuring himself on the stand, and, using her beauty expertise, she makes the victim's daughter confess to the crime, therefore proving her client's innocence.
Elle and her husband then graduate from Harvard Law, with Elle topping the class, and they decide to join a law firm together.
Tagline: This summer go blonde!
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