Miss Congeniality
MISS CONGENIALITY (12)
D: Donald Petrie
Warner Bros./Castle Rock/Village Roadshow (Sandra
Bullock)
US 2000
111 mins
Comedy
W: Marc Lawrence
DP: Laszlo Kovacs
Ed: Billy Weber
Mus: Edward Shearmur
Sandra Bullock (Gracie Hart), Michael Caine
(Victor Melling), Benjamin Bratt (Eric Matthews), William Shatner (Stan Fields), Ernie Hudson (Harry McDonald), Candice Bergen (Kathy Morningside)
A tomboyish FBI agent has to rediscover her airs &
graces and transform from an ugly duckling into a golden goose to infiltrate a beauty pageant which has been targeted by a terrorist threat.
Not to be taken seriously, this film is what it is, good
fun and nothing more. Of Sandra Bullock's earlier work, this is her most charming performance.
A sequel followed, but this is the kind of film which
works only the once.
6/10
