The Proposal(2009)

PG-13
1h 48m

Release Date: Jun 19, 2009 | Wide

45%
68%
A-
6.8

When New York editor Margaret faces deportation, she convinces her assistant Andrew to marry her in return for a promotion. However, when she visits his hometown, it changes her in many ways.

Releases

Original Release | Jun 19, 2009

Box Office

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$33,627,598
Total US & Canada:
$163,958,031
Total International
$153,417,000
Total Worldwide:
$317,375,435

Director & Top Cast

Anne Fletcher
Director

Sandra Bullock
Margaret Tate

Ryan Reynolds
Andrew Paxton

Mary Steenburgen
Grace Paxton

Craig T. Nelson
Joe Paxton

Betty White
Grandma Annie

Denis O’Hare

Mr. Gilbertson

Malin Akerman

Gertrude

Oscar Nuñez

Ramone

Aasif Mandvi

Bob Spaulding

Michael Nouri

Chairman Bergen

Michael Mosley

Chuck

Dale Place

Jim McKittrick

Alicia Hunt

Coffee Barista

Alexis Garcia

Immigration Clerk

Kortney Adams

Colden Books Receptionist

Chris Whitney

Medivac Pilot

Lee Wesley

Jordan

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: DTS,Dolby Digital,SDDS

Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Summaries

Storyline

For three years, Andrew Paxton has slaved as the assistant to Margaret Tate, hard-driving editor at a New York publisher. When Margaret, a Canadian, faces deportation for an expired visa, she hatches a scheme to marry Andrew, and he agrees if she will promise him a promotion. A skeptical INS agent vows to test the couple about each other the next Monday. Andrew had plans to fly home that weekend for his grandma's 90th, so Margaret goes with him--to Sitka, Alaska, where Mom, Dad, and Grandma await. Family dynamics take over: tensions between Andrew and his dad, an ex-girlfriend, Andrew's dislike of Margaret, and Margaret's past color the next few days, with the INS ready to charge Andrew with fraud. — <jhailey@hotmail.com> In New York, Margaret Tate is a successful self-made chief-editor of Ruick and Hunt Publishing and loathed by her coworkers. Margaret lost her parents when she was 16 and is tough with the employees of the office. Her executive assistant and aspirant editor Andrew Paxton has been working with her for three years with no recognition. When Margaret has problems with the immigration due to an expired visa and is threatened with deportation, she blackmails Andrew to agree to marry her; in return, he would be promoted to editor and she would publish his book. Meanwhile, the skeptical clerk of the immigration department, Mr. Gilbertson, schedules an interview with Margaret and Andrew after the weekend. The couple travels to Sitka, Alaska to celebrate the 90th birthday of Andrew's grandmother, and his warm family welcomes Margaret. Over the weekend, she grows closer to Andrew's family, who ask her to marry Andrew in their barn, a family tradition in the Paxton family. And the tension increases when Mr. Gilbertson suddenly appears in Sitka threatening to charge Andrew with fraud. — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil In order to keep herself from being deported, a middle-aged female boss forces her middle-aged male employee to as an engaged couple. They both travel to visit his family in an isolated area where everything changes in a particular way for everyone where anything can happen. — RECB3