Miss Congeniality 1 🎥 2000 Movie Info

Plot Summary

10-year-old Gracie Hart breaks up a school fight between two boys, one of whom is a bully and the other, her crush. The boy she likes feels humiliated, as he was saved by a girl and he rudely rejects her, so she punches him. 18 years later, 28-year-old Gracie is a tough but uncouth special agent for the FBI. During a sting against Russian mobsters, she ignores protocol to save a mob boss who appears to be choking, causing one of her fellow FBI agents to be shot. As a result of this, she is demoted to a desk job. Soon, the agency receives news of a bomb threat from notorious domestic terrorist “the Citizen”, alluding to an act of terrorism at the upcoming Miss United States beauty pageant in San Antonio, Texas.

Gracie’s partner, Eric Matthews, is put in charge of the mission and he relies on her suggestions, only to take the credit himself. One of Gracie’s ideas is to plant an agent undercover at the event which is agreed upon. When all potential candidates are deemed unsuitable, Eric suggests that Gracie takes the role, replacing Miss New Jersey, who was to be disqualified for acting in a pornographic film. Beauty pageant coach Victor Melling, teaches Gracie how to dress, walk and behave in a conventionally ladylike manner.

Although she is initially appalled, she comes to appreciate Victor’s thoroughness and she enters the pageant as “Gracie Lou Freebush”, representing New Jersey, soon becoming friends with Cheryl Frasier, Miss Rhode Island. As the competition begins, she impresses the judges during the talent competition with her glass harp skills. Several suspects are identified who could be “the Citizen”, including the current competition director and former pageant winner Kathy Morningside; her assistant Frank Tobin; veteran MC Stan Fields; and even Cheryl, who has a history of involvement with an animal rights activist group.

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