The Proposal (2009 Anne Fletcher)

I quite like seeing films directed by women, there can be something slightly different about them - this one isn't. It's written by a man - Pete Chiarelli - not too well I have to say.

Some films are like pebbles bouncing along the bottom of the sea, like this one. Some are happy dolphins swimming above, like a Crowe or Bogdanovich. (Very occasionally, like Tarkovsky, you get the whole ocean.)

Anyway, film is exceedingly dumb as hard-nosed boss Sandra Bullock (see earlier misgivings) forces (?) Ryan Reynolds (as bland as a teddy bear) to marry her. Naturally there is some confusion (though nowhere nearly as much as there should be) from parents Mary Steenburgen and Craig T Nelson and granny Betty White (who provides the film's only joke in a helicopter). Denis O'Hare is one of The Good Wife's judges.

Shot in Dulux tones by Oliver Stapleton.