{"id":9405,"date":"2005-09-02T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/02\/miss-congeniality\/"},"modified":"2005-10-23T03:57:20","modified_gmt":"2005-10-23T00:57:20","slug":"miss-congeniality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/02\/miss-congeniality\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Congeniality"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><!-- IMDB tt0212346 --><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/rummovie\/tt0212346.jpg?w=660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Miss Congeniality (2000)\" \/>I watched &#8220;<a href =\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0212346\">Miss Congeniality<\/a>&#8221; when it was in the movies, but I couldn&#8217;t remember a thing except that it had Sandra Bullock in it.  I heard that the sequel also came out, so I decided to watch both movies together and see if I was missing anything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directed by:<\/strong> Donald Petrie<br \/>\n<strong>Genres:<\/strong> Comedy, Thriller<br \/>\n<strong>Cast:<\/strong> Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt, Candice Bergen, Ernie Hudson, William Shatner, John DiResta, Heather Burns, Melissa De Sousa, Steve Monroe, Deirdre Quinn, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Asia De Marcos, Ken Thomas, Gabriel Folse<br \/>\n<strong>IMDB raintg:<\/strong> 6.2<br \/>\n<strong>My rating:<\/strong> 4.0 [rate 4.0]<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Basically, I wasn&#8217;t.  This film is pretty average and there is nothing special to remember about it.  The story is good, but there is not enough action and humor.  Sandra Bullock did a good job acting and she is always a pleasure to look at, but there just wasn&#8217;t anything else in the film.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I watched &#8220;Miss Congeniality&#8221; when it was in the movies, but I couldn&#8217;t remember a thing except that it had Sandra Bullock in it. I heard that the sequel also came out, so I decided to watch both movies together and see if I was missing anything. 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