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Title: Miss Congeniality (2000)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Sandra Bullock | ... | Gracie Hart | |
| Michael Caine | ... | Victor Melling | |
| Benjamin Bratt | ... | Eric Matthews | |
| Candice Bergen | ... | Kathy Morningside | |
| William Shatner | ... | Stan Fields | |
| Ernie Hudson | ... | Harry McDonald | |
| John DiResta | ... | Agent Clonsky | |
| Heather Burns | ... | Cheryl Frasier - Miss Rhode Island | |
| Melissa De Sousa | ... | Karen Krantz - Miss New York | |
| Steve Monroe | ... | Frank Tobin | |
| Deirdre Quinn | ... | Mary Jo Wright - Miss Texas | |
| Wendy Raquel Robinson | ... | Leslie Davis - Miss California | |
| Asia De Marcos | ... | Alana Krewson - Miss Hawaii | |
| Ken Thomas | ... | Agent Harris | |
| Gabriel Folse | ... | Agent Jerry Grant | |
Undercover F.B.I. Agent Gracie Hart shows no signs of having any femininity in her demeanor or appearance. Generally a bright and capable Agent, she is in trouble at work when she makes an error in judgment in a case which results in a near disaster. As such, one of her by-the-books colleagues, Eric Matthews, who has never shown any inclination of thinking outside the box, is assigned to lead the high profile case of a terrorist coined The Citizen instead of her, while she is facing possible disciplinary action. Gracie pieces together the evidence to determine that The Citizen's next target will be the Miss United States beauty pageant. The pageant represents everything that Gracie abhors. Despite Gracie's mannish demeanor, Eric, with no other undercover female Agent remotely fitting the demographic, assigns her to go undercover as a pageant contestant to see if she can flush out The Citizen, who is perhaps one of the other contestants. Although the pageant administration, led by ... Written by Huggo
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It's over-the-top, it's occasionally offensive--to men, to women, to gays, to lesbians, and to poor Miss Hawaii--but "Miss Congeniality" has Sandra Bullock, and she's wonderful. The opening moments, with FBI agent Bullock busting Russians in a restaurant sting operation, are so good that the movie might've played very well as an FBI comedy-drama, with Bullock on different cases. I mean, maybe they should've ditched the pageant stuff, at least until next time. But, no, Bullock goes undercover as a contestant in the Miss U.S. pageant, and the movie turns into your typical makeover thing. Lots of breast jokes, TOO many high heel pratfalls, and Michael Caine as a peculiar makeover artist (he's "dripping with disdain" one minute, fatherly the next, then bitter, then cuddly). Bullock has no chemistry with Benjamin Bratt as her boss on the operation (that's not her fault, however) and I wanted more of her home life (and that doomed microwave oven), but what works does work well. Sandra's "bonding" paint party with the girls is terrific, as is her friendship with shaky Miss Rhode Island and her attempts to face down snarling Ernie Hudson as the FBI chieftain (who, like in "Ghostbusters", gets no funny lines). The movie rests solely on Bullock's shoulders, and she delivers. It may not be comic genius, but it is congenial. **1/2 from ****