

Dear Diary
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.
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- Theatrical13 Dec 1996
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Dear Diary was released on 13 December 1996.
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2- R8/10
royhsmith
10/28/2019
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 or…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
12/26/2025
She ought to be settled in life. “Annie” (Bebe Neuwirth) is turning forty, married with two children and holds down a fairly decent job in publishing. Perhaps it’s something about her birthday that inspires her to document the next twenty four hours of her life, and that’s what she shares with us. The nature of this does mean there’s a great deal of dialogue, and even though she delivers it quite entertainingly at ti…
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