Can a party-hearty California girl make it in law school and win back her beau?
##High Expectations
I had very high expectations for this movie. My mother-in-law raved about it, as did my sister-in-law. So, it was going to be hard to please me, but I was pleasantly surprised.
##Fast Times
The movie starts near the end of senior year at a University of California campus with our hero Elle planning her acceptance speech for when her boyfriend asks her to marry him that evening. Got that?
It turns out, however, that he dumps her that night instead. She’s not *serious* enough for him. He’s planning on being a senator by the time he’s 30, and she just wouldn’t make a good senator’s wife.
So, he’s off to Harvard Law School, and she’s left depressed and helpless… or is she?
##Is Harvard hard or something?
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Elle decides that her best course of action is to go become a laywer too and show him that she can be plenty serious enough. She takes the LSAT and, since she has a 4.0 GPA and lots of extra-curricular activities, she makes it into Harvard (the scene in which the admissions office at Harvard looks over her video admissions essay is one of the high points of the movie!).
After she gets in, she works her way to the top of the class, notwithstanding some painfully embarassing moments along the way. Once there, she gets a special internship at a local law firm and helps to defend a murder case. Of course, it’s because she’s on the case that the defendent (a friend from long ago) is found not guilty.
##Wonderful writing
Although at times improbable, course that the movie takes is both fun and at times unexpected. The success of the movie depended on two things: the writing, and the bubbly personality of Reese Witherspoon.
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