In reality, Ryan Reynolds is an actual Canadian and Sandra Bullock is American.
Horrible lady boss is forcing her male secretary to marry her for immigration reasons.
Sham marriages to get someone U.S. residency are a serious crime. Weird that the government will prosecute you for marrying for anything other than romantic love. Wouldn't the government allow you to marry someone you didn't know very well due to pregnancy, or to otherwise "make an honest woman" out of her?
How about marrying to expand land holdings, or cousins marrying to the keep wealth in the family? How many romantic comedies have there been where couples who don't know each other get married only because one was stalking the other?
To help create the illusion that they're a real couple, Reynolds and Bullock travel together to Reynolds' family home where they will be celebrating his grandmother (Betty White's) birthday. This is where the bulk of the action takes place.
You'd think a rich Canadian would feel right at home with a wealthy family in Alaska, but it's all somehow alien to her.
Predictable ending. It might have been a good movie if Reynolds discovered that his horrible boss was even worse than he imagined and found a way to have her prosecuted while avoiding jail himself. Or if he killed her. Or if she killed him.
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