Tagline: Have you ever been tempted to look inside his little black book?
Stacy (Brittany Murphy) works as an assosiate producer on a tv talk show called Kippie Kann played by Kathy Bates. She is staying with her boyfriend Derek (Ron Livingston) and stumbles upon his ‘little black book’. The device shows Stacy that her boyfriend has pictures and phone numbers of several ex-girlfriends.
She decides to meet each one of the ex’s personally in an attempt to get closer to Dereks past life and ends up becoming friends with one of the ex’s. However Stacy is set up by her colleague Barb (Holly Hunter) as she has kept track of everything Stacy has done with the Palm Pilot -the little black book- and stages her on a live performance of the talk show and Stacy ends up losing her boyfriend to the ex she became friends with. The end of the film shows Stacy getting a new, better job and meeting her idol Carly Simon.
Little Black Book is a 2004 American comedy-drama film directed by Nick Hurran and starring Brittany Murphy and Ron Livingston in main roles. Holly Hunter, Julianne Nicholson, Josie Maran, Rashida Jones, and Kathy Bates serve in supporting roles; Carly Simon makes a cameo appearance at the end of the film.
The film opened at #5 at the North American box office, making $7,075,217 in its opening weekend behind Collateral, The Village, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Manchurian Candidate. The film ended its run with a domestic total of $20,698,668 and an international addition of $1,336,164, totaling $22,034,832 worldwide.
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Producers Jason Shuman and William Sherak, partners in Blue Star Pictures, were introduced by mutual friends while in college. Soon after, they co-directed the short film Spoof! An Insider’s Guide to Short Film Success. After each working stints as production executives, Sherak and Shuman formally paired up to produce their own films starting with the independent features Comic Book Villains and Four Dogs Playing Poker. After bringing their Blue Star Pictures shingle to Revolution Studios in the fall of 2000, they produced the horror/thriller Darkness Falls, which debuted at #1 its opening weekend.
Little Black Book fit in perfectly with the young producers’ creative goals — to tell great stories that feature multi-faceted characters, in a wide variety of genres. “It was an interesting character choice, and an interesting story to tell,” says Sherak.
“That’s what attracted us initially.” They first heard about the project about two and a half years ago when a manager friend of theirs who represented screenwriter Melissa Carter recommended the screenplay. “We read it and thought it was really universal and provided the framework for a really great movie,” says Sherak.
Another screenwriter, Elisa Bell, was brought in to work on the script. Blue Star submitted an early draft to producer Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas (Mona Lisa Smile, Maid in Manhattan), a partner in Revolution Studios who runs the company’s New York office. Goldsmith-Thomas became the driving force behind the film.
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Little Black Book (2004)
Directed by: Nick Hurran
Starring: Brittany Murphy, Ron Livingston, Kathy Bates, Holly Hunter, Rashida Jones, Sharon Lawrence, Julianne Nicholson, Stephen Tobolowsky, Josie Maran, Sharon Lawrence
Screenplay by: Melissa Carter, Elisa Bell
Production Design by: Bob Ziembicki
Cinematography by: Theo van de Sande
Film Editing by: John Richards
Costume Design by: Susie DeSanto
Set Decoration by: Bob Kensinger
Art Direction by: Peter Andrus
Music by: Christophe Beck
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content/humor and language.
Distributed by: Revolution Studios.Columbia Pictures
Release Date: August 6, 2004
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