Miss Congeniality’s Heather Burns Reminds Us She’s a True Queen on the Good Date

20. The Traditional “Good Date” Line Has Particular Significance

Yearly on April 25, memes pop as much as have a good time the movie’s beloved quote from Miss Rhode Island concerning the “excellent date,” which she mistakenly interprets as her favourite day on the calendar relatively than her preferrred romantic outing. Because it seems, screenwriter Marc Lawrence wrote the road, however Donald tweaked it by altering the date to his personal spouse’s birthday. 

“I simply mentioned, ‘Might or not it’s April 25th? That is my spouse’s birthday,'” the director revealed. “So I am very completely happy that every yr on her birthday, there are all these memes going about.”

21. Getting the Final Snort

Donald mentioned he deliberately consists of additional scenes in early cuts of his movies, simply in case something pops with audiences that he wasn’t anticipating, so critics are by no means invited to these screenings. However, the director remembered, movie blogger Harry Knowles snuck right into a check screening and “gave it probably the most scathing, worst evaluation of any film ever, together with calling me out for having personally ruined Sandy Bullock’s profession.”

Fortunately, the studio seemed to be unfazed by the early adverse buzz, and in the end the movie was nonetheless successful, grossing $212 million worldwide from a finances of $45 million. “The one factor I can say,” Donald mentioned, “is that I am positive glad the film went on to be an enormous success and type of a basic comedy, incomes massive bucks, in order that I can type of gently flip my finger at that evaluation and go, ‘Heh, heh!'”