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 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 possessions.

She applies to Harvard Law School to follow her boyfriend and prove to everyone that she is more than a free-spending, free-spirited young woman. Elle scores high enough on the Law School Admissions Test to be accepted to the school, and her unusual application videotape wins the approval of the admissions board. She brings her her chihuahua with her and expects to find happiness at Harvard, but she is met by skepticism of her abilities to graduate the school.

Things do not turn out as easy as she believed they would at Harvard Law. She is assigned to the difficult case of a young woman (a member of the same sorority as Elle) who is acussed of the murder of her older, wealthy husband. Meanwhile, Elle finds out that her boyfriend has been cheating on her, and her professor tries to have sex with her by offering her passing grades in return.

Eventually 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 professor is requested to leave the murder trial by the acussed, and Elle takes over. 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 asserted, and who had been perjuring himself on the stand. 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 start a law firm together.

Tagline: This summer go blonde!

Cast

• Reese Witherspoon – Elle Woods
• Luke Wilson – Emmett Richmond
• Selma Blair – Vivian Kensington
• Matthew Davis – Warner Huntington III
• Victor Garber – Professor Callahan
• Jennifer Coolidge – Paulette Bonafonté
• Holland Taylor – Professor Stromwell
• Ali Larter – Brooke Taylor Windham
• Jessica Cauffiel – Margot
• Alanna Ubach – Serena
• Oz Perkins – 'Dorky' David Kidney
• Linda Cardellini – Chutney Windham
• Bruce Thomas – UPS Guy
• Meredith Scott Lynn – Enid Wexler
• Raquel Welch – Mrs. Windham Vandermark

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