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Video review: 'The Proposal'

 

Published 6/19/2009 at L.A. Times - Movie News

Romantic comedy starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds deftly dwells in a space where romance meets revenge. > At the soft comic heart of "The Proposal" beats a cheeky update of "The Taming of the Shrew" -- you know, the arranged marriage, wives-submit-to-husbands rubric that Shakespeare played around with all those years ago. The conceit shouldn't, by all rights, work in a modern world where love, and everything else, is supposed to be an equal opportunity affair. And yet . . . (link)

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