Cute movie, entertaining with Bullock and Reynolds.

Rating: Null/10 (3 November 2009)

For me this is the kind of movie that depends heavily on the actors chosen for the parts. For example, if someone like Will Ferrell had played the part of Andrew Paxton, it would not have been a very good movie at all. But it is a good movie, with Bullock and Reynolds, funny and with an interesting story.
Sandra Bullock is hard-driving publishing house boss Margaret Tate. Her assistant who puts up with all the crap she can sling his way is Ryan Reynolds as Andrew Paxton. He wants badly to get a promotion to editor and a situation arises that just might give him his big break.
Margaret is Canadian, working in NY on a visa. But when she goes out of the country without approval, for an important business deal immigration doesn't like it. Now she must go back to Canada, and wait a year, unemployed, to regain her status. Unless ... she marries an American.
So that in essence is what the movie is about. She essentially blackmails Andrew, he will be out of a job is he doesn't agree to marry her, and if he does marry her he will get the big promotion.
Most of the movie is set at Andrew's family home, a large estate on the water outside Sitka Alaska. Seems that his family is very wealthy, own quite a chunk of the businesses in Sitka, but Andrew wanted to go away and make a name for himself.
Mary Steenburgen is good as Andrew's mom, Grace Paxton. And Craig T. Nelson is good as his dad, Joe Paxton. His grandmother is Betty White as Grandma Annie, celebrating her 90th birthday, and that is the reason they travel back to Alaska.
The funniest scene is when Margaret forgot to get a towel, and is walking across the bedroom floor naked as Andrew is also walking naked, and they surprise each other and end up on the floor.
MAJOR SPOILERS, for my recollection. As the wedding ceremony is happening in the old barn, a traditional family wedding location, Margaret is overcome with guilt and confesses everything, and the wedding is stopped. She arrives in her NY office, and is cleaning everything out to leave immediately for Canada, but Andrew shows up. He has fallen in love with her and wants to marry her. She is scared, but agrees and the movie ends with them hugging as office personnel cheer them on.