Los Angeles Strip Clubs: Video review: ‘The Proposal’
An expired green card — she’s, gulp, Canadian — changes everything. As fast as she can say, “Andrew and I are engaged,” a conspiracy is born. There’s a very cynical immigration agent to outwit, family and friends to fool and only four days before she’s deported if they don’t. So, basically, it’s fraud on a fast track with the possibility of five years behind bars for Andrew, setting the stage for a power grab of major proportions. Revenge is sweet, and Andrew isn’t shy about exacting it.
This is typically the point in a comedy in which humiliation really digs in hard. Instead, the filmmakers leave Margaret’s dignity intact except, perhaps, for a few moments here and there: the on-her-knees-on-a-busy-Manhattan-street formal proposal Andrew demands, her cheek to “cheek” with a male stripper, a full-frontal collision . . .
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