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Bihind the Scenes Documentaries Preparing For the Pageant and the
Pageant 2 Feature Length Audio Commentaries: One With Sandra Bullock
and Co-Screenwriter Marc Lawrence, the Other with director Donald Petrie

When a serial killer indicates that his next target is the Miss United States
beauty pageant, the F.B.I. decides that they must get an undercover agent as
a participant in the contest. A search uncovers no suitable candidate other
than a bumbling female agent (Sandra Bullock). Reluctantly, her captain
(Ernie Hudson) agrees to let her join the team working the case. The team is
led by a womanizing agent (Ben Bratt) who has an apparent reluctant
attraction to Bullock's character. She enters as Miss New Jersey, replacing
a contestant who was discovered to have acted in a porno film. The pageant
managers (Candice Bergen, William Shatner) are immediately aghast about
the agent appearing in the pageant, but arrange a top handler (Michael
Caine) to come give her a quick makeover, with the expected outstanding
results. Unfortunately, she still is bumbling. When the killer is suddenly
caught, everything seems to be over, except the female agent tries to
convince her boss that something is still not right. She has discovered that
the pageant managers are being dismissed after 21 years for younger
people, and Bergen's character may not be as solid as she seems on the
surface.