Miss Congeniality

Name: Miss Congeniality
Director: Donald Petrie
Released: 2000

Donald Petrie

2000

4.50

Synopsis

When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's quickly determined that he's planning his next act at the Miss America beauty pageant. Because tough-as-nails Gracie Hart is the only female Agent at the office, she's chosen to go undercover as the contestant from New Jersey.

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Sandra BullockGracie Hart
Benjamin BrattEric Matthews
Michael CaineVictor Melling
Candice BergenKathy Morningside
William ShatnerStan Fields
Ernie HudsonHarry McDonald
John DiRestaAgent Clonsky
Heather BurnsCheryl Frasier
Melissa De SousaKaren Krantz
Steve MonroeFrank Tobin

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63
New York Daily News
Miss Congeniality would not be out of place as a TV series, so it makes sense that Candice Bergen and William Shatner appear as pageant co-hosts.
63
Boston Globe
She (Bullock) has a way of landing on her feet and remaining simpatico no matter how cheesy the script is. That's what happens here.
50
Film.com
It all coalesces in a TV-level pleasantness, which isn't quite enough to fill a big screen.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
It isn't bad so much as it lacks any ambition to be more than it so obviously is.
50
New York Post
Has some entertaining moments, thanks mainly to Bullock herself, who is surprisingly glamorous as well as endearing.
40
Variety
Stumbling its way down the comedy runway, Miss Congeniality is yet another miscalculated vehicle for the ever-feisty Sandra Bullock.
40
The New York Times
Supporting performances add comic spark to a movie that otherwise seems happily, deliberately second-rate.
30
Chicago Reader
The kind of ugly-duckling role that's long been ironic for her (Bullock).

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