Kaling says the film will center on Reese Witherspoon’s Elle Woods growing up: “Her cheerfulness really worked when she was 22, but what does that personality look like at 42?” she asks. “Did she end ...

You get the sense that Mindy Kaling was taking notes during her years working in sitcom writers' rooms. Late Night, the first feature she has scripted, assumes the form of a fairly predictable ...