Miss Congeniality (DVD)

Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) is a federal agent for the FBI and a complete tomboy. She had been known to beat up the boys at elementary school, for calling her a girl. With a fiery temper, she is known to lash out and also to speak her mind. After making the mistake of not listening to her superior during an undercover investigation, she is responsible for her colleague getting shot and wounded. As a result she is put on less demanding duties at the FBI, her colleague Eric Matthews (Benjamin Bratt) who she is in competition with to be the best the FBI has is put in charge of the investigation. Gracie tries to get 'in on the action' of the case Eric is working ...  Read the complete review

I have never really been a fan of action/detective/spy movies but I have heard so many gushes about this film that I just had to give it a try. Of course, I was extremely far from being disappointed. I love just about everything about Miss Congeniality! From Sandra Bullock's pig-like snort to her awkwardness as she tried to become more feminine, to the pure chaos of the pageant, everything just appealed to me in the film. I have to say that despite the occasional burst of action scenes, Miss Congeniality remained light and preppy with an air of mystery. It was rather like reading an extremely fun Nancy Drew novel. Sandra Bullock was really at ease with the dualistic ...  Read the complete review

Me and a friend were having a film night a day last week at her house, and ended up looking through her dvds for something else to watch as we had watched everything that had brought, she picked up Miss Congeniality and said it was really good, so I agreed to watch it and we sat down and put the DVD in. Miss Congeniality was released in 2001, although I have no memory of it being in the cinemas. However, according to Wikipedia it was a major box office hit and grossed over $106 million in the US and $212 million worldwide. Also, it was nominated for a musical Oscar and the star, Sandra Bullock, was nominated for a best actress Oscar. There was a ...  Read the complete review

Gracie Hart is a respected F.B.I Agent and also one of the lads. She despises everything about girly girls from the way they dress to the way they walk and talk. When a tip off about a terrorist attack is received, predicting the attack to be at the Miss Congeniality pageants the F.B.I come up with an ingenious plan to foil the attack. First things first though, they have to find an F.B.I Agent who looks good enough to be a believable Miss USA contestant. After whittling down all the possible candidates the only woman on the team left is the snorting, beer swilling tomboy Gracie Hart... oh dear! After receiving a make over fit for an A-Lister, Gracie is then ...  Read the complete review

I was looking through my DVD collection last night to try and find another film to review, and found this one. I was amazed I hadn't already reviewed it. The Plot -------------- Miss Congeniality follows and tomboy FBI agent, Grace Heart. She has to go undercover as a Miss New Jersey beauty pageant star. The reason for doing this is a serial killer indicates that he will be targeting the Miss United States pageant and the FBI needs an agent to get involved with the pageant, and to stop the murder from taking place. The Characters ------------------- Sandra ...  Read the complete review