"Here comes the bribe..."
If you're a fan of chick flick film, this is one to watch. Starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, both creating a comedy and drama film leaving you in tears of laughter. Bullock and Reynolds play well off each other, and generate some major laughs throughout the film. However, The Proposal is exactly what you expect it to be, then again maybe it’s not. All the usual romantic comedy clichés are present and all the usual characters are too.
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.