Ms.+Congenality

Movie: Ms. Congeniality Character: Gracie Hart


 * 1) __The Call to Adventure__: Gracie is an FBI agent who has been assigned to work on the “citizen letter” case and makes a discovery that the citizen’s target is a Beauty Pageant.
 * 2) __Refusal of the Call__: The FBI needs an agent to go undercover in the Ms. United States Pageant and Gracie is the only woman in her bureau, but she refuses to be made over into a beauty queen.
 * 3) __Supernatural Aid__: The FBI hired a consultant, Victor, to transform Gracie from a manly FBI agent into a graceful woman.
 * 4) __Crossing the Threshold__: Gracie arrives at the pageant and is placed in a world very unknown to her.
 * 5) __The Belly of the Whale__: Gracie starts to take part in pageant activities that she struggles with
 * 6) __The Road of Trials__: Gracie competes in the first round of the pageant, failing to have a talent act so she made one up on the spot. This act ends with her jumping off of the stage onto a person who she thought was a threat to the pageant and Gracie gets in trouble with the pageant directors.
 * 7) __Meeting with the Goddess__: Although Gracie had previously worked with agent Eric Matthews, she starts to fall for him by working closely with each other.
 * 8) __Woman as Temptress__: Gracie is tempted to leave and go back to her normal life which she desperately misses.
 * 9) __Atonement with the Father__: Gracie wants to give up but Victor persuades Gracie that she is getting better and continues the work through the pageant to continue her investigation.
 * 10) __Apotheosis__: Gracie goes out with a few of the girls and realizes that they are not the “stuck up beauty queens” that she though they were in the beginning of the story. She becomes great friends with the girls and appreciates what they are doing in this pageant.
 * 11) __The Ultimate Boon__: Gracie makes it into the Top 10 of the pageant as is able to continue her mission. She knows now that her work must get done and she has to save the targeted victims in the pageant.
 * 12) __Refusal of Return__: The FBI has received orders that the citizen who has threatened the pageant was caught and it is time to leave the pageant. Gracie thinks that there is still something that will happen at the pageant so she refuses to leave with the other FBI members.
 * 13) __The Magic Flight__: Gracie attends the final day of the pageant, but without the aid of the FBI or Victor. She has learned some ways to make it through the pageant and must take matters into her own hands to solve her mission.
 * 14) __Rescue from Without__: Agent Matthew returns, without other FBI agents, to help Gracie because he believes that she is right about the fact that the capturing of the citizen was not the end of the case.
 * 15) __Crossing the Return Threshold__: Together, Matthews and Gracie discover the bomb in the crown of the winning contestant and save the pageant and people attending the event.
 * 16) __Mastery of Two Worlds__: Gracie saved the pageant and is now able to return to her normal life as a FBI agent, yet she has gained knowledge of the pageant world and is able to have the best of both worlds.
 * 17) __The Freedom to Live__: Gracie is now able to live her life, now happier and knowing more about her life and the world around her, instead of being trapped inside her little bubble that she could not escape before.