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David Frankel

Dear Diary

  • Romance
  • Comedy
  • Drama
RELEASE

1996-12-13

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

22 min

Description

A New York magazine art director, a married mother of two who just turned 40, decides to record the events of her day in a journal. The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Reviews

royhsmith

@royhsmith

An Oscar winner for best short (from the director of The Devil Wears Prada), and yet it seems never to have been distributed in physical form, or digital for that matter. I saw it on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Va3ieBdQjaU and you can too if you don’t mind its lousy image resolution. You probably should if you want to see a fun, quick, yet still somewhat sophisticated short. Too good for TV it seems, as it was originally a pilot that the networks passed on. I think it easily could have been a show on HBO; it reminds me of a bit of Dream On if that show had a female protagonist, or Sex in the City if that show didn’t suck. It deserved better then, and I think it deserves better now.