As star-driven vehicles in which the leads have to get in touch with their
feminine side go, this comedy doesn't have much up on WHAT WOMEN WANT, even
though that film's seeker of inner softness was Mel Gibson. Hard-as-nails
Gracie Hart (the ever-appealing Sandra Bullock) lives for her job as an FBI
agent. After a
de rigeur opening action sequence, Hart learns that a
Unabomer-type terrorist has threatened to blow up the upcoming Miss United
States beauty pageant, and she's the only suitable agent to go undercover as a
contestant. Gracie never wears dresses, doesn't own a hair brush and puts down
pageant participants as "bikini stu...
Released:
2000
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
105 mins