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Watch: Little Black Book 2004 123movies, Full Movie Online – Trentonian Stacy Holt’s life has been guided by two general items. One is her father abandoning the family when she was young, leading to her and her mother turning to the music of Carly Simon to cope, and she having had a history of unsatisfying romantic relationships in not having a suitable male role model. The other is her idolization of Diane Sawyer, who she has long wanted to work alongside as a serious journalist. Her personal life seems to have finally overcome the issue of her father with the entrance of Derek into her life, he, a scout for the New Jersey Devils, her boyfriend who she knew was her soul mate when they met, they now living together. Things are not going as well on the professional front, she having just left a dead end job to work among the large stable of associate producers on the syndicated Trenton-based daytime talk show “Kippie Kann Do!!”, whose show topics are outrageous, the more outrageous the better. Stacy’s tenure with the show is even more tenuous as Kippie herself has been the fodder for the tabloids, Stacy further learning that someone on staff has been feeding the tabloids those stories in trying to push Kippie out with cause as there is five years left in her contract. When Stacy learns that Derek once dated supermodel Lulu Fritz, who has appeared on the talk show circuit, including on Kippie’s show, in discussing her bulimia, Stacy begins to wonder what else about his dating past Derek has failed to mention. This item comes to a head when Stacy has access to Derek’s palm pilot to discover that he has been in recent contact with at least two former girlfriends, both equally as successful as Lulu, and neither which Derek had ever mentioned let alone about this recent contact. In general discussion with her work colleagues in a show idea of snooping in a significant other’s little black book to discover what secret life that person may be leading, Stacy, with her two confidantes among those colleagues, Barb Campbell-Dunn and Ira Nachlis, by her side, goes about delving further into Derek’s proverbial little back book – his palm pilot – by contacting those former girlfriends under an assumed name to find out more information about their relationship with Derek under the guise of possible appearances on Kippie’s show about their work lives. Beyond the issue of if the secrets Derek may be keeping are a bigger picture of the doomed fate of their relationship, Stacy may discover more about herself and her life in general, partly in relation to the issue of the old quote, “luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”..
Plot: Determined to learn about her boyfriend’s past relationships, Stacy — who works for a talk show — becomes a bona fide snoop. With her colleague, Barb, Stacy gets the names of Derek’s ex-lovers and interviews them, supposedly for an upcoming show. But what she learns only adds to her confusion, and her plans begin to unravel when she befriends one of the women.
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Ratings:

	5.3/10 Votes: 18,372
	22% | RottenTomatoes
	36/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 307 Popularity: 11.537 | TMDB

Reviews:

Are the people voting really watching this movie?
All romantic comedies follow a standard formula: Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back. As the audience, we’re supposed to enjoy the How of the formula. And often times that formula is very entertaining. Along comes this refreshing, unpredictable “Little Black Book” that does not follow the familiar formula, yet is a romantic comedy — and a very well made one, I think — the cumulative vote so far is less than 5. Makes no sense to me. Here’s what you get with “Little Black Book.” An intelligent script well directed. Brittany Murphy is impressive in a very seamless performance. Julianne Nicholson practically steals the show. Plus Josie Maran steams the whole thing up. What else do you want? 7 out of 10

A little something different
Having seen the original previews for this film I had just assumed it was a romantic, cutesy comedy with Brittany Murphy and I definitely wanted to see it. Turns out it wasn’t exactly what was expected. It’s far from, perhaps the furthest I have ever seen from, the typical “romantic comedy.” I would even say don’t call it a romantic comedy but rather more of a black comedy minus romance.

Little Black Book is the story of a girl named Stacey who since she was a little girl dreamed of being a journalist working with Diane Sawyer. She starts from the bottom and gradually works her way up to a syndicated “Jerry Springeresque” talk show with host Kippie Kann. She is taken under the wing of another producer Barb, who is rather bitter about life and men. While attempting to come up with scandalous ideas for the show Stacey begins to believe her current boyfriend of a year may be hiding things and the best way to find out what he is hiding is to dig a little into his past, especially when she finds out his past is in the shape of a supermodel guest they have on the show. Together with Barb and another producer they interview her under the guise of being “for the show.” She discovers a little about what he may be hiding. It’s not enough for her and she digs deeper by finding out more of his exes including his first love Joyce. Stacey gets herself caught in finding out what he’s hiding by lying her way into each of his exes lives. Unfortunately she comes to really like Joyce and realize that what she feels for him is very real, and the possibility that the love of her life may belong with someone else.

Brittany Murphy is very quirky in this movie. She seems very child like and odd at times and has a very strange look to her but it’s a likable cutesy and perhaps very realistic look. Her character is flawed and insecure and we can all relate to how she’s feeling. Holly Hunter plays the role of the best friend who is a little brash and you think Murphy might perhaps be good for her but in the end she stays Brash and rather unlikeable. Ron Livingston who plays the boyfriend is just okay. The more we find out with Stacey about him, the less we seem to like him as well. Kathy Bates is very good as the pompous, sour, sexist talk show host, and one of the hidden gems of the film is Kevin Sussman as the under-appreciated Ira who really does care about everyone’s feelings.

The movie is a little slow paced, and a little slow getting started but Murphy is entertaining enough to keep it watchable. The plot is funny and there are some very hearty laughs throughout the movie and most of them come from Murphy, no surprise there. She basically carries this film. Where it really unfortunately falls apart is the ending. Nick Hurran who basically has nothing notable to his director credentials seems to have just slapped on a rather sloppy ending. Stacey, who is a very likable character never gets to redeem herself and although she does accomplish her top goal in life, she still has that mark of lying to everyone on her. Her best friend betrays her and sells her out for a story and she is forced to tell everyone the truth rather than coming clean herself. The ending is definitely outside the usual romantic comedy ending and there is nothing wrong with that, although we never really find out if Stacey’s inclinations about Derek and Joyce are right. There is some redemption is seeing Stacey get her life dream that is made very clean throughout is her happy ending. It’s nice to see she doesn’t need a man to accomplish her happiness.

The movie is definitely funny, heartfelt at times and despite the sloppy and almost movie ruining ending it is worth seeing. It will make you laugh, or rather Brittany Murphy will make you laugh. She definitely holds the weight of the film up all on her own. But she pulls it off and kudos to her for that. 6.5/10

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 47 min (107 min), 1 hr 45 min (105 min) (Ontario) (Canada)
Budget 35000000
Revenue 22034832
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director Nick Hurran
Writer Melissa Carter, Elisa Bell
Actors Brittany Murphy, Ron Livingston, Holly Hunter
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS (DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1), Dolby Digital (Dolby Digital 5.1), SDDS
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Super 35
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic) (Kodak Vision 2383)