Pretty Woman (1990)
62 %
Reviews Counted: 50 Fresh: 31 Rotten:19 Average Rating: 5.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Synopsis: While driving back to his Beverly Hills hotel, millionaire corporate raider Edward Lewis takes a wrong turn and ends up on Hollywood Boulevard, where he meets prostitute Vivian Ward. She steers him back to his hotel, charming him along the way, and he decides to hire her for the rest of the... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Hector Elizondo, Jason Alexander, Ralph Bellamy
Director: Garry Marshall
Producer: Arnon Milchan, Steven Reuther
Screenwriter: J.F. Lawton
Composer: James Newton Howard
Producer: Arnon Milchan, Steven Reuther
Screenwriter: J.F. Lawton
Composer: James Newton Howard
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Reviews
Gere and Roberts do good work, but this feelgood fantasy is laced with some preposterous messages about love, success and money.
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04/09/08
Pic's casting is astute, with Gere underplaying like a sturdy ballet star who hoists the ballerina Roberts on his shoulders.
04/09/08
Top Critic
Bound to offend prostitutes and millionaires everywhere, this flick is not the street-smart Pygmalion it desperately wants to be.
04/09/08
Low on real social comment, this modern fable still has more than enough chemistry between its leading pair to rake in the box-office rewards.
04/09/08
It's saying Roberts' character becomes a better person when she lands a rich guy and learns to cry at the opera.
04/09/08
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Top Critic
For a film that attempts to satirise snooty materialism, it focuses too pantingly on the designer labels, and comes down firmly on the side of 'rich is better'.
06/24/06
Director Garry Marshall somehow lucked into a hit despite his oppressive 125-minute running time and excessive schmaltz.
05/26/06
Plenty sappy and unrealistic but also a funny and dysfunctionally romantic charmer.
10/07/05
I’ve always loved this film, even though it is a class-A chick flick.
09/07/05
As formulaic and push-button-y as it is, it still houses some truly enjoyable movie-star chemistry,
08/20/05
An emotionally appealing film that taps into our primal feelings about money, power, pleasure, shame, intimacy, and love as a redemptive power.
08/18/04
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