As he takes Rosalee on a whirlwind tour of local fast-food restaurants and pool halls, her boss at the grocery store, Pete (Topher Grace), who has been secretly in love with her for years, suffers in silence. Ultimately, Tad is so disarmed by Rosalee's goodness and her grounded sense of values that he later pays a surprise visit to Fraziers Bottom, intending to hang out with her and absorb more of her goodness. Tad sweeps Rosalee off to Los Angeles in a chartered jet, and the two have a nearly perfect date whose only blemish is an unfortunate episode of car sickness in the limousine on the way to a fancy restaurant. (A wild night of carousing had landed Tad on the covers of the tabloids, and he needed to reaffirm his carefully spun Prince Charming image.) The contest was cooked up as a desperate publicity stunt by Tad's agent (Nathan Lane) and his manager (Sean Hayes), both named Richard Levy and both given not nearly enough screen time. Rosalee's Hollywood dream materializes when she wins a date with her fantasy heartthrob, Tad Hamilton (Josh Duhamel), who flies to Fraziers Bottom, accompanied by a mob of paparazzi. In both movies the princess-in-waiting must choose between two dreamboats: a handsome, urbane smoothie and a modest Mr. Its ridiculous notion of down-home is not the only thing ''Tad Hamilton'' has in common with ''Sweet Home Alabama.'' Robert Luketic, the director of ''Tad Hamilton,'' made his Hollywood debut with ''Legally Blonde,'' the movie that catapulted Ms. Witherspoon's character in ''Sweet Home Alabama,'' might as well be Tobacco Road. The place is so bland that, by comparison, Pigeon Creek, the jolly hometown of Ms. Va., a rural backwater that except for a dingy motel is indistinguishable from a suburb of Los Angeles. Her character, Rosalee Futch, is a star-struck grocery clerk at a Piggy Wiggly market in Fraziers Bottom, W. And ''Win a Date With Tad Hamilton!,'' a romantic comedy that has all the edge of an overstuffed cream puff, is just the sort of innocuous vehicle that can carry an aspiring princess another step closer to becoming America's Sweetheart. She is neither too brainy nor too much of an airhead for mass appeal. Witherspoon's mystique of thrust-chin goody-goodiness, without seeming namby-pamby. Her aura of fresh-scrubbed integrity is a softer version of Ms. Roberts and the pre-Las Vegas Britney Spears. Bosworth's wide-open face suggests a blend of the younger Ms. This 21-year-old actress, who made a big splash in ''Blue Crush,'' has the glow. Right now there is no more likely candidate for that peppermint tiara than Kate Bosworth. Now that Julia Roberts is 36 and Reese Witherspoon 27, the time has come to begin grooming another blushing ingénue to take a turn as the people's princess, Hollywood-style.
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