A F For those expecting a complete chick flick, you may be disappointed.The movie started out looking very soft and light, but as it progressed, you were immersed into the lives of strong, funny and independent women. You were drawn into complex female characters, a rarity in the industry, who were neither good nor evil.I loved the movie, as it was not just about the girl getting the guy, but it examined many of the lies that we surround ourselves with. The story had many twists, with witty, and insightful looks into the lives of the women.And I loved the ending.

dej99 I watched this movie because I like many of the actors: Holly Hunter, Kathy Bates, and Ron Livingston. Brittany Murphy is cute and appealing. But every scene was excruciatingly painful and there was nothing to redeem the film. The narration (by the main character) was trite, the plot was thin, and too much time was spent on the behind-the-scenes of a trashy daytime talk show (we all know that these shows are drivel and the producers lack integrity---please tell us something that we don't know). If it weren't a lazy Sunday morning, I would have certainly changed the channel. Please, don't be fooled, and don't waste your time. I have never bothered to review a movie based on how negatively I feel about it, but this movie took the cake.

Mark Thornton Determined to learn the truth about her secretive boyfriend, Derek (Ron Livingston), Stacy (Brittany Murphy) becomes a bona fide snoop in this comedy. Associate producer of Kippie Kann's (Kathy Bates) popular talk show, Stacy's dying to find out about Derek's past relationships. Helped by Barb (Holly Hunter), she gets the names of his ex-lovers and interviews them, supposedly for an upcoming show. But what she learns only adds to her confusion.This is actually my first attempt at writing a review for any film. I'm not sure why they request a minimum of ten lines of text, or if I can come up with that much to say. All I can say is that it is very difficult to understand how this movie could have such a low overall rating. The acting was, indeed excellent. It held my interest all the way through. Although I don't believe it qualifies as a "suspense", I certainly was kept wondering what would happen next! I Highly recommend viewing!

JonWatches **Spoiler is not especially spoiling.** Wanting to see this film since noticing the one-shot poster at the theater, I nonetheless figured it was just because of Brittany's looks. Since I pretend to have too much self-respect to see a film based on that alone I didn't watch it until the DVD was too cheap to pass up, and I'd heard that it wasn't just another boppy romantic comedy.By waiting so long I almost missed out on a really good film. It certainly isn't just another romantic comedy. In fact, Murphy channels Drew Barrymore in a quaint mix of His Girl Friday styled patter and modern over-obvious humor while the film packs a punch with a dark side spearheaded by Holly Hunter, whose performance unifies a character of such scattered motives and needs that the result is downright bewitching to behold.The film isn't a girl-catches-guy-cheating (oh, but really he's not, happy ending, wahoo) story. It's a girl catches (the) reality (of) cheating story. You can hear the screenwriters' gears stripping with the otherwise useless voice-overs by Murphy to keep the audience going with the film as it trashes expectations. Had I been on a date, I might have thrown popcorn. But truth is the film is deep.Does Stacy (Murphy) come to find out how slick and untrustworthy men are, or does she really just come face-to-face with "knowing too much," and learn how decisions become unmakeable in the light of too much understanding about how we always know too little about what's just beyond the life we lead? The main character here is flawed, lovely, likable, and gets genuinely hurt not just by her man, but by her eating of the forbidden fruit, symbolized by the Palm Pilot little black book. It's not simplistically knowing that her boyfriend is "still out there" with other women, but it's knowing (and respecting or even liking) the personalities of those women. Here Julianne Nicholson really comes to the fore with a portrayal of ex-girlfriend Joyce, who bonds tightly with both Murphy and the audience.Bonding, in fact, happens everywhere. The energy within the cast is remarkable. Hunter's bond with Murphy is so compelling that given their age difference there is a slight sexuality to it...sort of as if Hunter's extra years grants her a worm-hole to masculinity that she slides through with a school girl's youthful vibrancy.By breaking the genre the film is, in a sense, necessarily flawed. Knowing that, the final ending is at once corny and recognizably required to stop the audience from burning down the concession stand. But given a chance to see Hunter enraptured at the end as she creates her life's great piece of performance art makes the broken promise of the one-shot that attracted me well worth suffering.