Year:
2000
Studio:
Warner Bros/Castle Rock Entertainment/
Village Roadshow Pictures
Movie:
3/5
DVD:
4/5
Sandra Bullock plays a tough tomboy FBI Agent Gracie Hart who has to
impersonate a beauty contestant in the Miss United States Pageant in
order to apprehend the anarchist criminal The Citizen. Benjamin Bratt
plays FBI Agent Eric Matthews, partner and love interest. Michael Caine
plays Victor Melling, her beauty contestant coach. Candice Bergen
(Kathy Morningstar) and William Shatner (Stan Fields) play the Miss
United States hosts and organizers.
It's a basic feminist woman learns that being pretty and nice doesn't
mean being weak. Meanwhile Agent Hart gets to use her street abilities
to good effect during the beauty pageant. It's a comedy with lots of
funny moments but for some reason I wasn't really impressed with the
overall story. I would have liked more undercover situations. They
didn't seem to take advantage of the "tough FBI agent posing as a
beauty queen" angle.
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DVD Special
Features
1. Commentary track with Sandra Bullock and Writer Marc Lawrence. This
is a good track and Bullock is quite funny.
2. Commentary track with Director Donald Petrie. Kind of boring and run
of the mill director's commentary.
3. Featurettes: 20 minutes of behind the scenes, including a couple of
deleted scenes and a few outtakes.
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