![]() ![]() Barb also reveals that her cheating boyfriend had been cheating for years and she might have been saved if she had done such research. Stacy gets the great idea of going through the Palm Pilot to look up Derek’s old girlfriends, Joyce and Rachel.Īt work, Barb goads Stacy into doing more research on Derek through a strained metaphor between men and dog breeding. Derek is calling to tell Stacy that he left his Palm Pilot at home. When the phone rings, Stacy trips over the rug like the neurotic main romcom character that she is and the answering machine kicks on while she flails. Stacy goes through pictures of Derek’s exes while Bob stares judgmentally at her. Instead, she gets a box out of Derek’s closet marked “Personal Stuff” and taped like a million times. ![]() Stacy is upset that Derek lied to her, but he is out of town on a business trip so she goes home to talk to Bob the dog instead. Bob tries to tell Stacy to use the phone and talk to Derek, but he only communicates in barks, so she doesn’t understand him. She’s pretty awful, but so are all the jokes about her “barfing” aka having an eating disorder. Eventually, she says she got tired of him and his magical penis, so she dumped him, allowing Derek to go back to another of his exes, Joyce. Lulu says that she and Derek had fantastic sex and that was pretty much all it was. When they interview Lulu, her story is very different than the one Derek told her. Stacy is initially really against this plan, but, as “best friends” do, Ira and Barb goad her into it anyway. Ira calls Lulu back into the office to interview her/probe her for info on Derek. They literally gossip around the water cooler. She raised our intrepid Stacy to believe two things: you must be certain about everything (especially relationships with men) and Carly Simon fixes everything. All the devils are here.” Really puts you in the mood for a romantic comedy, right? We’re not sure that overcomes the other things, but it at least changes the overall message the movie sends, which is a really, really good thing.įull Recap: Our main character is Stacy Holt, but we begin with a quote from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest: “Hell is empty. On the other hand, the end is better than we expected from any romcom. There’s also the intense frustration that accompanies the main character’s insistence on talking to everyone in the world except her boyfriend, the painful and highly inaccurate climax, and a grown woman’s confusion at a routine gynecological exam. This makes them all perfect for her since she, herself, is a lying liar. She discovers that her boyfriend is a lying liar, her “best friend” is a lying liar, and basically everyone she works with is a lying lying liar. ![]() Starring Brittany Murphy, Holly Hunter, Ron LIvingston.Summary: Little Black Book tells the story of an insecure woman (played by Brittany Murphy) snooping on her long-term boyfriend by investigating his exes. Or make better use of the delete function. Male audience members, on other hand, might only be encouraged to update the security measures on their Little Black Books. Frank sexual discussions and repeated profanities are also employed in the script. Nor does it persuade girls to open up with one another, because many of the women in the story are portrayed as sneaky, self-absorbed and sometimes even outright ruthless in their interactions with one another. Instead, suspicions raised about former girlfriends may result in an increase of Palm-peeking episodes, rather than encouraging open communication between couples. However, for family viewing, the messages around being honest with others and yourself may prove to be too subtle. That awareness, along with moments of comedy and the turn of events when Stacy meets the exes gives some entertainment value to this film. Written by Melissa Carter, the screenplay seems to understand females’ therapeutic need to wallow in a really sad song during times of distress. Afraid to jeopardize their budding friendship, she is now the one who omits telling the truth. Unfortunately, the situation becomes complicated when Stacy forms a real bond with one of the women (Julianne Nicholson). During their discussions, she cleverly discovers some very current tidbits about their relationships with her lover. Pretending to do research for an upcoming Kippie Kann (Kathy Bates) show, Stacy sets up interviews with each of Derek’s exes. ![]()
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