2000 · comedy · crime · action
Miss Congeniality
Directed by Donald Petrie1h 50m2000
When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's quickly determined that he's planning his next act at the Miss America beauty pageant. Because tough-as-nails Gracie Hart is the only female Agent at the office, she's chosen to go undercover as the contestant from New Jersey.
Our read: Miss Congeniality (2000) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded comedy · crime · action entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- twisty
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