Miss Congeniality
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Director: | Donald Petrie | Actors: | Sandra Bullock (as FBI Agent Gracie Hart), Michael Caine (as Victor 'Mr. Vic/Vic' Melling), Benjamin Bratt (as FBI Agent Eric Matthews), Candice Bergen (as Kathy Morningside), Ernie Hudson (as F.B.I. Agent-In-Charge Harry McDonald), William Shatner (as Stan Fields), John DiResta (as F.B.I. Agent Clonsky), Heather Burns (as Miss Rhode Island/Cheryl Frasier), Melissa De Sousa (as Miss New York/Karen Krantz), Steve Monroe (as Frank Tobin/Frank Morningside), Deirdre Quinn (as Miss Texas/Mary Jo Wright), Wendy Raquel Robinson (as Miss California/Leslie Davis), Asia De Marcos (as Miss Hawai'i/Alan Krewson), Ken Thomas (I) (as F.B.I. Agent Harris), Gabriel Folse (as F.B.I. Agent Jerry Grant) | Country: | USA | Category: | Comedy | Year: | 2000 | Personal Rating: | |
| Description: | *** DVD Rip: Yes - Quality: High *** When a serial killer indicates that his next target is the Miss United States beauty pageant, the F.B.I. decides that they must get an undercover agent as a participant in the contest. A search uncovers no suitable candidate other than a bumbling female agent (Sandra Bullock). Reluctantly, her captain (Ernie Hudson) agrees to let her join the team working the case. The team is led by a womanizing agent (Ben Bratt) who has an apparent reluctant attraction to Bullock's character. She enters as Miss New Jersey, replacing a contestant who was discovered to have acted in a porno film. The pageant managers (Candice Bergen, William Shatner) are immediately aghast about the agent appearing in the pageant, but arrange a top handler (Michael Caine) to come give her a quick makeover, with the expected outstanding results. Unfortunately, she still is bumbling. When the killer is suddenly caught, everything seems to be over, except the female agent tries to convince her boss that something is still not right. She has discovered that the pageant managers are being dismissed after 21 years for younger people, and Bergen's character may not be as solid as she seems on the surface. | Imported Comments: | This is an excellent comedy which kept me laughing all the way through consistently without the flat patches you often get in longer comedies. The premise is not so unusual with Sandra Bullock playing an ugly duckling/Pygmalion turning into a swan, however, the performances, especially by Bullock, Caine, Shatner and Bergen make the film. Bullock stars as the never been loved tomboy of the FBI who has to dump her coarse manners and unkempt appearance in order to go undercover at a beauty pageant. Michael Caine is the Dr Higgins figure grooming her for stardom. Shatner plays Shatner, and Bergen is the matron of the Pageant. Benjamin Bratt plays the love interest ! Bullock is excellent all the way through from uncouth to gorgeous, and is particularly stunning in her transformed self. Caine is also excellent and the interplay between these 2 and the cast in general makes for a lively pace all the way through, til the final crowning ceremony. A thoroughly entertaining film and well worth seeing. |
Languages: | English | Subtitles: | None | Length: | 109 | Video format: | DivX 3.11 Low Motion | Audio format: | MPEG Layer 3 (MP3) | Resolution: | 640x352 | Files sizes (Mb): | 698 |