About 1/3 of the way into this movie, I had a gut feeling of just another boring not so great girl power dating flick. But the movie took a surprisingly dark turn. Should have known Holly Hunter would not be doing the cheese I had anticipated. Just when I was about to give up on it, it started to get better. The whole ruse of using her producer's gig to get the dirt on her man's ex's was well done. You even believed that had it been another place or time, her and Joyce would have become best buds. But luckily for the movie, Holly Hunter was there to change that. The final scene with the taping of the live show was fantastic. I wish they would have used the ex-girlfriends a little more but justifiably the focus was on Stacy and her realization that her plan had somewhere been detoured. Very well done. But it was too late to make up for the hole that the movie had dug. Kudos to Brittany Murphy for her acting during the show.

A lighthearted romantic comedy, Little Black Book delivers some good laughs. The story follows an associate producer of a daytime talk show who uses her position to look into her boyfriend’s past relationships. Starring Brittany Murphy, Holly Hunter, Rashida Jones, Julianne Nicholson, and Ron Livingston, the film has a great cast that has a lot of comedic talent. However, the plot is pretty stereotypical for a rom-com and uses all of the standard clichés. Still, there’s some cleverness to the script, in that it purposely uses the clichés in a satirical way. The main problem though, is the last act; which feels tacked on and disconnect from the main plot. Little Black Book is entertaining and fun, but it’s a little messy and doesn’t really come together in the end.