Gracie Fields - Silver Screen Collection DVD

Advantages: sandra is great
Disadvantages: weak storyline

...This is a film that when it came out I saw it at the cinema and I got it on DVD as soon as it came out and I must have watched it al least ten times, now as I have grown up I still like the film but not as much as I used to and think that it has a weak storyline, but its still very funny. Sandra Bullock plays Gracie Hart a FBI Agent who is far from a lady in every sense, she eats like a man, snorts when she laughs and have never worn make up or waxed in her life. So when the beauty pageant is threatened by a terrorist attack Gracie has to go under cover as Gracie Lou Freebush a contender in the pageant which means a lot of work for Michael Caine who has to turn her from a caterpillar to a beautiful butterfly to make her look like a real contender in the pageant. Unfortunately Gracie does not find this easy as she has to undergo... Read review

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Advantages: a few good laughs, shatner's one-liners
Disadvantages: fades towards end, not too original

...This film was a sleeper hit in the states, quietly edging past the $100 million mark and giving Sandra Bullock's box office pulling power a much needed boost. It's not the sort of film I normally go and see at the cinema but won't begrudge a viewing at home on dvd. Bullock plays Gracie Hart, an FBI agent with a slobbish tomboy manner. After a screw up on an assignment she finds herself out of favour with the powers that be. That is until a bomber is predicted to strike at eh Miss United States beauty pagent. FBI operation leader Eric Matthews (Benjamin Bratt) see's Gracie as the only agent who can infiltrate the pagent much to Gracie's disdane. They enlist the help of gay pagent manager Victor Melling (Micheal Caine) to transform Gracie into a beauty queen. What follows is some midly amusing entertainment with all the usual plot... Read review

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Advantages: comical, light-hearted, good acting
Disadvantages: not enough romance for Gracie!

...; Traffic, Red Planet, The Next Best Thing) who is a bit of a womaniser and has a bit of a love-hate relationship with Gracie. Gracie is assigned to enter as Miss. New Jersey, as the original candidate has been conveniently disqualified for taking part in a pornographic film. The pageant managers Stan Fields (sci-fi god William Shatner; Star Trek, The First Men on the Moon, Nukes in Space) and Kathy Morningside (Candice Bergen; Belly Talkers, Frames from the Edge) however, are rather unwilling to have Gracie take part as she is hardly 'feminine' in their eyes. So they bring in beauty specialist Victor Melling (Sir. Michael Caine; Get Carter, Shiner, Quills, The Cider House Rules) to optimise her appearance in the short space of two days. Melling does a good job, but Gracie is still as clumsy as ever in her pursuit of catching the criminal. When... Read review

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