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Plot summary
Margaret Tate is the editor-in-chief at a New York publishing house, disliked by her staff. A visa violation leaves her facing deportation to Canada, so she coerces Andrew Paxton, her assistant, into a marriage that would win her a green card, noting that her departure would set back his ambition to become an editor. He agrees on two conditions: a promotion to editor and publication of a book he has recommended. Immigration agent Gilbertson warns that a fraudulent marriage would mean permanent deportation for Margaret and a fine and prison time for Andrew. The two travel to Sitka, Alaska, for the ninetieth birthday of Andrew's grandmother Annie, where Margaret discovers the Paxtons are wealthy, meets the waiter Ramone and Andrew's ex-girlfriend Gertrude, and hears Andrew's father Joe accuse him of using her to get ahead.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Proposal (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Reynolds discussed his participation in a nude scene, and Bullock said that although producers had provided fig leaves, they would continuously fall off, adding: "You could literally see everything."
- Julia Roberts was originally approached to play the lead role but turned it down before Sandra Bullock was cast.
- The film was loosely remade three times abroad, in Malayalam as My Boss, in Kannada as Software Ganda and in Tamil as Sandakkari.
- Filming was briefly delayed when Bullock and her husband were involved in a car accident during production.
- In the days before production, part of a real town was remodelled to stand in for Sitka, Alaska, the film's primary setting.
