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Miss Congeniality (2000)
An excellent fantasy movie!
This is a perfect fantasy movie, about a woman who is not only assertive and strong and smarter than her colleagues, but she becomes a beauty queen as well! Many strong women wanted to be beauty queens when they were little girls. Sandra finds all the humour in the dilemma that feminists have in swearing off sequins and high heels. The moral of the story (if you bother to find it) is that life must have balance, and grace and beauty have a place too. It is not "War and Peace" but this is a lovely fluffy film.
Leaving Normal (1992)
Heartfelt and funny.
The movie had a lovely opening with Meg Tilly confiding to a series of fellow passengers on a Greyhound Bus, that she is sure her life was about to change, even though she was marrying a person she did not know very well. About two minutes later, she is back out on the road, illusions shattered. Her character(Marianne) bumps into Christine Lahti, who is also ready for a change, after burning just about everybody who has ever be-friended her. So, Marianne-Pollyana and the queen of bitterness take off for Alaska. Some of the surprises include a poet-trucker, and Christine's dancing abilities.