Like Romancing the Stone, this knockabout romp concerns a Mills & Boon-adjacent novelist caught up in one of her own adventure yarns. Photograph: Paramount/Kimberley French/Allstar 6. Temporal complexities make this one of the few love stories that can leave your heart and your head aching. Bullock, back with Keanu Reeves for the first time since Speed, invests exactly the right amounts of incredulity and longing. Bullock moves out of her lakefront home in 2006 and leaves a note for the incoming resident, whose reply to her is dated – WTF? – 2004. This is You’ve Got Mail but with a zip code in The Twilight Zone. Offered the physical kind instead, she recoils: “Eww, disgusting! You mean … fluid transfer?” 7. In this brave new world, Bullock (a last-minute replacement for Lori Petty) is Lenina Huxley, whose task it is to bring Stallone up to speed with 21st-century developments, including the Schwarzenegger presidency and the advent of virtual sex. Demolition Man (1993)Ī cop (Sylvester Stallone) and a criminal (Wesley Snipes) cryogenically frozen in the 1990s are defrosted in 2032. But she has a gas opposite Michael Caine as the prim fashion consultant ensuring that she scrubs up in time for the speeches about world peace. The actor never quite convinces as an ungainly slob in one scene, she is called upon to secrete doughnuts in her underwear, which is funny partly because there’s barely room in there for a Tic Tac. Miss Congeniality (2000)īullock’s goofiness was fruitfully exploited in this comedy about an FBI agent going undercover as a beauty pageant contestant. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy 9. Bullock is the cop closing in on cerebral young psychopaths Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt while dealing with demons of her own. The devilish Barbet Schroeder, director of Maîtresse and Single White Female, was a wise choice for this thriller loosely based on the Leopold and Loeb case (which also inspired Rope, Compulsion and Swoon). The movie is all bludgeoning inspirational uplift, but Bullock’s performance – nuanced, faintly enigmatic and closed-off – hints that Leigh Anne is less at ease than she might appear. The Blind Side (2009)īullock received her only Oscar to date for playing Leigh Anne Tuohy, the Christian Republican mum who adopts a hulking, neglected African American teenager, Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), and inspires his greatness on the football field in this fact-based white-guilt-fest. It was correct to warn of the dangers of surrendering personal information – that’s how Bullock’s character, a computer analyst unwittingly caught up in espionage, has her identity stolen – yet still underestimated the damage heading our way. Now it looks somehow both innocent and prescient. Time has done funny things to this routine tech-thriller, made back when home internet was still several years away from ubiquity. Comic inspiration evaporates thereafter, save for the sight of Bullock offering a puppy to an eagle in exchange for her stolen phone. “Can’t fight a love like ours,” she grimaces, desperately improvising the plan in front of her bosses. The Proposal (2009)Ī tyrannical Canadian publishing executive (Bullock) decides to marry her despised PA (Ryan Reynolds) to stay in the US when her visa expires. Photograph: Warner Bros/Sportsphoto/Allstar 14. Gross-out low-lights: she gets the runs in a traffic jam, he hobnobs with Donald Trump. Marc Lawrence (who wrote Forces of Nature and Miss Congeniality) made his directing debut with this mixed-bag romcom about the unlikely relationship between a millionaire property developer (Hugh Grant) and a conscientious lawyer (Bullock). She may be an unlikely fit as the weed-smoking part-time party animal, but top marks for the attempt at diversifying. Forces of Nature (1999)īen Affleck is en route to be married when his plane crashes during take-off Bullock is the fellow passenger with whom he teams up to make the journey by road, their attraction to one other throwing his marital plans into turmoil. The high-calibre supporting cast includes Steve Buscemi as Bullock’s counsellor, Viggo Mortensen and Marianne Jean-Baptiste as fellow addicts, and Dominic West as her boozy, bad-lot boyfriend. Bullock is an alcoholic who hits rock bottom after tumbling into her sister’s wedding cake and crashing a limousine. 28 Days (2000)Ī rehab comedy that’s never quite as funny nor as serious as it needs to be. Also includes the screen debut of Allison Janney. The 24-year-old Bullock has a small role as the Sarah Lawrence student who catches the eye of a rough-and-ready Brooklyn lad when she and her friends recite the EE Cummings poem. This shoddy-but-sweet late-1950s coming-of-age drama resembles a very minor Diner.
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