Dear Diary

Dear Diary

1996
★★★☆☆ 6.5/10
⏱️ 22 minutes
📅 Released
🌐 EN
RomanceComedyDrama
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.

User Reviews

royhsmith
★ 8/10
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.
October 28, 2019

Crew

Director
David Frankel
Writer
David Frankel
Producer
Barry Jossen

Production

DreamWorks Television