STUDIO SYNOPSIS

When high-powered New York book editor Margaret (SANDRA BULLOCK) faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she’s actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew (RYAN REYNOLDS), whom she’s tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family (MARY STEENBURGEN, CRAIG T. NELSON, BETTY WHITE) and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another. With an impromptu wedding in the works and an immigration official on their tails, Margaret and Andrew reluctantly vow to stick to the plan despite the precarious consequences.

SPIRITUAL POINT OF VIEW

WHY "THE PROPOSAL" IS A SIGNIFICANT FUN FILM
Reason #1: SANDRA BULLOCK -a female comic genius
Reason #2: RYAN REYNOLDS -a kind—Jack Lemmon and Chevy Chase combined
Reason #3: CHEMISTRY -amazing chemistry between these two otherwise unlikely partners
Reason #4: BETTY WHITE -she literally steals every scene she is in.
Reason #5: WOMAN DIRECTOR ANNE FLETCHER -intuition and sensibility
Reason #6: AMAZING CAST AND CREW -great group of people
Reason #7: GENDER REVERSAL
Reason #8: DOMINANCE REVERSAL
Reason #9: STRONG FEMALE ROLES
Reason #10: FAMILY AFFIRMING, YET HONEST
Reason #11: HOMAGE TO FEMALE GREATS
Reason #12: HOMAGE TO CLASSIC COMEDIES

Biblical Connections:
So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall!
--1 Corinthians 10:12 (TNIV)

First pride, then the crash— the bigger the ego, the harder the fall.
--Proverbs 16:18 (MSG)

Find a good spouse, you find a good life—
and even more: the favor of God! --Proverbs 18:22 (MSG)