Bullock plays Margaret Tate, a tough New York City book editor feared and disliked by her employees, who've secreted dubbed her Satan's Mistress. Reynolds is Andrew Paxton, who has been her slave, er, assistant, for three years without any time off. When the Canadian-born Margaret's visa renewal is denied she forces Reynolds to marry her in order to avoid deportation. He agrees with the caveat that he 1) will get promoted to book editor and 2) they publish his novel and 3) he gets to take his first ever time off - going home to Alaska for his grand-mother's 90th birthday.
With doubting immigration officials watching their move, Margaret goes home with him but this city girl quickly finds herself out of place in the small urban town. Then there's the added pressure of sharing a bedroom and pretending to be engaged in front of his doting family. Naturally they begin to fall in love.
Overall, the film is pretty much predicatable and the sort of film you would state as a chick flick film with the love, romance, comedy, drama and good looking characters too. Something you would find in almost every chick flick films.
I feel like Sam Raimi has returned to the fold and raised the bar yet again for anyone making contemporary horror movies, creating what could be described as a refresher course in how to craft a fantastically scary film, without resorting to nasty tactics.
The performances are uniformly excellent and the casting, as with most of Raimi's films, is perfect. The make-up on Lorna Raver who plays the old lady, Sylvia Ganush was astonishing and really freaks people out just with the look of it from head to toe, including the scary old and yellow finger-nails. It may be a bit exageratting, however it worked totally great throughout the film as it does cause jumpy parts towards to audience especially with close-ups and unexpected picture frames of Sylvia Ganush, the image of her causes the horror throughout the film.
I find the film fairly interesting as every scenes catches my attention with drama inside and exciting storylines. There wasn't a scene that drifted me away and leave me off to somewhere else. The film jumps from one plot to another without having too much unnecessary scenes, this makes the film just full of horror as you don't have time to sit and relax after one horror to the other.
Overall, the film fits in its catergory and theme of horror and thriller. However, the only dissapointment was the ending as it was pretty much predictable to the audience and 15 minutes before the ending it already gave out the answer of how the ending would be and who will die towards the end. But you just have to watch it to the end to see how the person dies in the final scene.
