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The Proposal
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds play the charmingly mismatched sort-of lovers is the predictable, yet ultimately likeable romantic comedy, The Proposal. Ms. Bullock plays Margaret, a hard-nosed, pit-bull-with-lipstick book editor whose lackey, Andrew (Reynolds), puts up with all of her crap because a) he’s trying desperately to climb the corporate ladder, and b) she’s really, really good at what she does. All this corporate bliss is put to the test when Margaret discovers she is about to be deported back to Canada for violating her visa. In a last ditch effort to remain in the good ol’ U.S. of A., she declares her undying love for Andrew and insists they are going to be married.
Neither the boss at the publishing house nor the jaded immigration bureaucrat are buying it, however, so it’s up to Andrew and Margaret to prove to the world, and Andrew’s family, that they are truly, hopelessly, eternally in love…until they get married and then obtain a quick divorce.
There is a lot to like about The Proposal. Both Bullock and Reynolds are charming in their roles. Reynolds slips easily between his worlds of high-powered corporate assistant and laid back, down home boy. Bullock makes the unveiling of her inner child both sweetly tender and achingly poignant. Both actors have proven to be masters of comedic timing. Yet at some point Ms. Bullock is going to have to grow up and act her age. I’m not quite sure I believed the romance that inevitably develops between Margaret and Andrew.
Supporting work from Craig T. Nelson as the disappointed dad, Mary Steenburgen as the I-want-grandkids mom, and Betty White as the ditzy but savvy grandma is equally top notch.
Bottom line: I liked The Proposal a lot, but didn't fall in love with it.
Stuff that bugged me about The Proposal:
When Andrew and Margaret show up at the family homestead in Alaska they are shown to their bedroom with the announcement that there is no need to pretend they are not sleeping together. Why is that an assumption? I can guarantee you if I went to my folks’ house with my fiancé in tow, there would be separate bedrooms. Ain’t no way my folks would put up with an shenanigans. I’m pretty sure there are a lot of other parents of adult children who wouldn’t either.
Grandma dancing in the woods chanting American Indian mantras. Can’t really say why, it just didn’t sit well with me.
Oscar Nunez’s male stripper routine. Really? I mean…really? Did anybody need to see that?
The Proposal is appropriately rated PG-13 for sexual content, nudity (more implied than shown) and language. The DVD includes a digital copy, an alternate ending, deleted scenes, gag reel, and a commentary track.
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Legend of the Seeker: Season 1
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