The Proposal
A pushy boss forces her young assistant to marry her in order to keep her Visa status in the U.S. and avoid deportation to Canada.
27 February 1950, Hastings, Michigan, USA
16 November 1944, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
1 May 1966, Detroit, Michigan, USA
27 January 1988, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
7 July 1999, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
June 19, 2009
It's impossible to guess why Bullock was ever attracted to this insulting role, and the eternally confident Reynolds is miscast as a young, bullied underling.
July 24, 2009
They may as well have called this one 'Mis-Matched Sham Wedding Comedy #57513' for all the effort it makes to shake new life out of a tattered genre.
August 14, 2010
Simple and clichéd, yet refreshing. As long as you're hell-bent on seeing a romantic comedy, The Proposal will deliver.
June 19, 2009
Instead of being about dinosaurs and time warps, it's about gags that were old when dinosaurs ruled the earth.
December 17, 2009
annoyingly predictable and barely watchable piece of Hollywood routine
September 29, 2011
A fresh twist to a proposal that starts out as all business but becomes something warmer and fuzzier before it's over.
November 02, 2009
It's not awful, certainly not memorable and - despite the words of at least one quote whore - it's not "the year's best comedy."
June 19, 2009
Thanks to casting and chemistry, this is the first great romantic comedy of the summer.
October 31, 2009
a morass of clichés
July 24, 2011
The comedy is some good moments, and the chemistry between Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds is strong, but it's too cute and predictable
June 22, 2009
Sloppy and lazy.
