Comedy Film Miss Congeniality

Miss Congeniality (film)

Directed by	Donald Petrie
Produced by	Sandra Bullock Marc Lawrence Katie Ford Ginger Sledge
Written by	Marc Lawrence Katie Ford Caryn Lucas
Starring	Sandra Bullock Michael Caine Benjamin Bratt Candice Bergen William Shatner
Music by	Ed Shearmur
Cinematography	László Kovács
Editing by	Billy Weber
Studio	Castle Rock Entertainment Village Roadshow Pictures
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	December 14, 2000
Running time	109 minutes
Country	United States
Budget	$45 million
Box office	$212,742,720

Miss Congeniality is a 2000 American police comedy film directed by Donald Petrie, written by Marc Lawrence, Katie Ford, and Caryn Lucas, and starring Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt, and Candice Bergen.

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Plot

The film opens at a school where a boy is picking on another boy. We see Gracie Hart as a child who beats up the bully and tries to help the victim (whom she liked), who instead, criticizes her by saying he disliked her because he did not want a girl to help him. She promptly punches the boy in the nose and sulks in the playground.
We go forward in time to where Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) works for the Federal Bureau of Investigation with Eric Matthews (Benjamin Bratt) as a Special Agent. We see her on a mission where she does not follow orders from her superior and tries to stop their target from choking. Because of her actions one of her squad gets shot. She is put on a desk job.
The bureau receives a threat against the 75th annual Miss United States beauty pageant in San Antonio, Texas from notorious domestic terrorist "Citizen". Eric is elected to lead the mission to stop a supposed attack. A computer search identifies Hart as the female FBI agent best qualified to go undercover as a contestant (as Miss New Jersey, the original having quit after she was discovered to have been in a porn film), although she pays little attention to her femininity.
Beauty pageant coach Victor Melling (Michael Caine), whose reputation was ruined after his last contestant criticized his methods, teaches the tomboyish Hart how to dress, walk, and act like a contestant. She is unused to such behavior, however, and sees the pageant and its participants as "outdated and antifeminist". Several suspects exist, including competition director and former pageant winner Kathy Morningside (Candice Bergen); her unpleasant assistant Frank Tobin (Steve Monroe); veteran emcee Stan Fields (William Shatner) who, like Morningside, is being replaced with a younger person; and Rhode Island's Cheryl Frasier (HeatherBurns), possibly a radical animal rights activist.

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Cast

**  SandraBullock as Gracie Hart

**  MichaelCaine as Victor Melling

**  Benjamin Bratt as Eric Matthews

**  CandiceBergen as Kathy Morningside

**  WilliamShatner as Stan Fields

**  HeatherBurns as Cheryl Frasier, Miss Rhode Island

**  SteveMonroe as Frank Tobin/Morningside

**  ErnieHudson as Harry McDonald

**  JohnDiResta as Agent Clonsky

**  Wendy Raquel Robinson as Leslie Davis, Miss California

**  DeirdreQuinn as Mary Jo Wright, Miss Texas

** MelissaDe Sousa as Karen Krantz, Miss New York

** Asia De Marcos as Alana Krewson, Miss Hawaii

**  JenniferGareis as Tina, Miss New York's girlfriend

**  Cody Linley as Tough boy in flashback

**  LeeAnne Locken as Kelly Beth Kelly, Miss Nebraska

Production

Most of the movie was shot in Austin, Texas, though it was set in NewYork City and San Antonio. Exteriors of the St. Regis and a few street scenes were shot in New York. The interior of the St. Regis was actually Austin's Driskill Hotel. The Alamo and River Walk scenes in San Antonio were shot there. The pageant itself was shot at Bass Concert Hall at the University of Texas at Austin and the hotel hosting the contestants was the Hyatt on Lady Bird Lake, again in Austin.

Home media

The film was first released on DVD in 2001, and included two audio commentaries, some deleted scenes, the theatrical trailer, and two documentaries. In 2005, a deluxe edition of the film was released, including different cover art for the DVD and menu. It contained the same features as the other DVD version plus a quiz hosted by William Shatner and a sneak peek at the second film. It was released a second time in 2009, as part of a double pack with the sequel, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous.

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