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.

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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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