Miss Congeniality
- Director: Donald Petrie
- Writer: Marc Lawrence; Katie Ford
- Producer: Bruce Berman; Sandra Bullock
CGiii Comment
Thoroughly entertaining nonsense for those who enjoy thoroughly entertaining nonsense.
Michael Caine is a hoot.
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The(ir) Blurb...
Undercover FBI 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.
Cast & Characters
Sandra Bullock as Gracie Hart;
Michael Caine as Victor Melling;
Benjamin Bratt as Eric Matthews;
Candice Bergen as Kathy Morningside;
Ernie Hudson as Harry McDonald;
William Shatner as Stan Fields;
John DiResta as Agent Clonsky;
Heather Burns as Cheryl Frasier, Miss Rhode Island;
Melissa De Sousa as Karen Krantz, Miss New York;
Steve Monroe as Frank Tobin;
Deirdre Quinn as Mary Jo Wright, Miss Texas;
Wendy Raquel Robinson as Leslie Davis, Miss California;
Asia De Marcos as Alana Krewson, Miss Hawaii;
Ken Thomas as Agent Harris;
Gabriel Folse as Agent Jerry Grant