little black book have a lot of thing and there be some romance and some deception and a little comedy add for flavor . however and the movie suffers from a dearth of generally likable character . the plot be relatively simple . stacey ( murphy ) be try to find her place in life and and come to work at a daytime talk show a an associate producer . she be happy with her boyfriend and job . then one day and an associate and barb and take an idea that be pitch during a meeting and little black book and and suggest stacey go through her boyfriend and find out about his ex girlfriend . stacey and use the show a a guise and interview the woman and befriend one and and slowly come to find that her boyfriend be not what he seem and their relationship be not as happy a she think it be . this all come to a climax on the talk show and where barb have set stacey up and and a confrontation between stacey and her boyfriend and his ex girlfriends occurs . the problem of this movie be that most of the character be not particularly sympathetic . stacey come off a neurotic and paranoid and generally dysfunctional . there be no reason to really root for her to succeed . her boyfriend come off a a louse . barb be simply cruel . the only one who be really sympathetic be one of the ex girlfriends play by julianne nicholson . her character be flesh out in a way none of the others be .