Legally Blonde is a 2001 American comedy movie based on a novel. It stars Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Coolidge and was released on July 13, 2001. The movie got a lot of good reviews and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy and is 29th on Bravo's 2007 list of "100 Funniest Movies". For her performance, Reese Witherspoon was nominated for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and the 2002 MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance. The movie made a lot of money at the box office, and it made almost $142 million worldwide (the budget was $18 million). The movie was later followed by two sequels and a stage play with the same name. It is set in Southern California and Cambridge, Massachusetts.