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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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Miss Congeniality finds Sandra Bullock as FBI Agent Gracie Hart, who must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a psychopath from committing untold homicide.
The premise is simple, it's a Pygmalion/My Fair Lady scenario that transforms the rough and tough Gracie into a viable contestant for the pageant. Thus we have all the comedy that comes with her literally battling everyone, including her own opinions on pageants, as she is being asked to be something she doesn't believe is in her make up. The mystery of who the killer is who's on the loose is strong for a good portion of film, and even once it's known and drama takes centre stage, it's still hard to get the smile off of your face.
The jokes are plentiful, with Bullock finding chemistry with all of her co-stars. She's a very under valued comedy actress, and her ability to bond with an entire cast is marvellous to observe. Reference sexual tension with Benjamin Bratt, the jousting hostilities with Ernie Hudson, the way she bounces off of the other beautiful girls, and best of all the by-play with Michael Caine, who is playing a camp stylist and walks in to lift the laughter roof off the rafters in every scene he is in.
It doesn't push the boundaries of comedy, but it's thankfully a consistently funny piece of work, aided by a super cast on form who make a better comedy out of what the screenplay suggested it had any right to be. 7/10