This is a terrific popcorn flick.
Sandra Bullock plays Gracie Hart, the quintessential tomboy and FBI agent. She's tough, rough, lacking in "sophistication" and not particularly keen on having herself look well kept. She's put on a case to protect the girls of the Miss America Beauty Pageant against whom a death threat has been case. In charge of the team is womanising Eric Matthews (Benjamin Bratt) who comes off looking a fraction clueless. Rounding off the cast brilliantly is Candice Bergen as Kathy Morningside and Michael Caine as Victor Melling - the terribly camp pageant advisor sent to help Gracie find some, well, grace!
It's predictable, with a solid start, a pear shaped middle and a solid ending. There are some decent laughs and there's the drool factor (for the girls Benjamin Bratt and for the boys Sandra Bullock).
Interesting to note that Katie Ford, of the Ford Modelling Agency has a writing credit to this flick and that Sandra Bullock was the producer.
Sandra Bullock plays Gracie Hart, the quintessential tomboy and FBI agent. She's tough, rough, lacking in "sophistication" and not particularly keen on having herself look well kept. She's put on a case to protect the girls of the Miss America Beauty Pageant against whom a death threat has been case. In charge of the team is womanising Eric Matthews (Benjamin Bratt) who comes off looking a fraction clueless. Rounding off the cast brilliantly is Candice Bergen as Kathy Morningside and Michael Caine as Victor Melling - the terribly camp pageant advisor sent to help Gracie find some, well, grace!
It's predictable, with a solid start, a pear shaped middle and a solid ending. There are some decent laughs and there's the drool factor (for the girls Benjamin Bratt and for the boys Sandra Bullock).
Interesting to note that Katie Ford, of the Ford Modelling Agency has a writing credit to this flick and that Sandra Bullock was the producer.
