Legally Blonde - 2001

 Elle is part of a sorority called Delta Nu and her friends think she’ll soon be engaged, but Warner dumps her instead because he has to focus on Harvard and because “if I’m gonna be a Senator, I need to marry a Jackie, not a Marilyn”.

She cries really loudly at the restaurant. She realises that to be considered “serious” enough for Warner and his family, she needs something like law school. Her parents are not exactly supportive, and at school she has to do a lot to hope to be accepted, but she’s confident she can do anything. She works to pass the LSAT exam with enough points, whatever that is, and she got 179, she only needed 175.

She sends Harvard a video, instead of writing an essay, dressed in a bikini and telling them she’ll be a great lawyer…

At Harvard, there are many who seem to want to accept her, so they do. She arrives with a truck full of her stuff and her chihuahua of course. First impressions are not great, obviously; she looks and sounds like from another planet.

Warner is shocked when he first sees her. 

First class, she’s the only one without a computer, and the only one who hasn’t read ahead the first 50 pages. She’s asked to leave the room and is furious. It turns out, Vivian, the girl who said it was not acceptable for Elle to not know the answers, is now Warner’s new girl, Vivian Kensington, his fiancée.

Elle is distraught. She goes for advice to a hair&nails salon and decides to get him back.

The others in her class all seem to dislike her. Vivian tells her the posh party they’re going to is a costume-party, so she goes as a playmate but doesn’t run away, she walks among them head high. She goes to talk to Warner and he says he’s always busy studying, but then she lightly tells him: “I know what you mean. I can’t imagine doing all this and Callahan’s internship next year. That’s gonna be so much”. I’m not sure if she really thinks, at this point, that she might win the internship her professor talked about, or if she’s simply thinking at how much work it would be, whatever the case, he is such a jerk to reply: “Oh Elle, come on, you’re never gonna get the grades to qualify for one of those spots. You’re not smart enough sweetie.” I mean, what a jerk.

She understands he’ll never think she’s good enough for him. She decides she’ll show him her worth! She buys a computer, takes lots of books and she studies a lot and gets a lot better. She helps Paulette, the nail lady, get her dog back.

Now Callahan’s firm has a murder case, so he’s taking the help of four first years (he has no other students? more advanced in their studies?… oh well.)

Elle got in, with both Warner and Vivian.

Emmett, the only one who was nice to her, is a firm associate. They’re defending Brooke, who supposedly shot her husband; Elle knows her for her fitness empire, and is convinced of her innocence. Elle convinces Brooke to share her alibi with her. Brooke tells her because they like each other, but wants nobody to know she was having liposuction, which means she didn’t get her body thru her gym course. Elle will keep her secret, but Callahan’s not happy about that.

Warner is all “who cares what Brooke wants or about your word, think of yourself” to convince Elle to spill it. Vivian doesn’t seem to like that.

Elle is sent to interview the ex-wife with Emmett. Vivian wasn’t happy to be the one always sent to fetch drinks, but now she is actually nice to Elle for one evening.

Brooke and Elle understand each other, both being Delta Nu, and so Elle knows they’re lying to frame her.

Vivian was nice until she saw Callahan hitting on Elle and got the idea that Elle slept with him, not seeing her storming out. Elle now wants to quit, but her other professor, the stern woman who threw her out her first lesson, encourages her to fight back. So Brooke fires Callahan and hires Elle instead. Elle wins the case thanks to her expertise on hair perms.

Now Warner is all over her but she ignores him.

Two years later, she graduates, and makes the graduation speech. There’s writing on the screen saying that Vivian dumped Warner and she’s now best friends with Elle; Paulette married the delivery guy she liked and will name their first daughter Elle.

Emmett opened his own law firm and dates Elle. They’ve been dating for two years and tonight he will propose.

Elle - Reese Witherspoon

Emmett - Luke Wilson

Vivian - Selma Blair

Warner - Matthew Davis

Callahan - Victor Garber

Paulette - Jennifer Coolidge

Stromwell - Holland Taylor

Brooke - Ali Larter