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Pretty Woman (1990)

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Reviews Counted: 54

Fresh: 33

Rotten:21

Average Rating: 5.7/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins

Genre: Comedies

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... 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 evening. In the morning, Edward realizes that he could use an escort for the week, so he hands Vivian $3000 to stay -- and sends her on a fantasy shopping spree. What begins as a purely business transaction develops into something more, but can a poor prostitute and a rich businessman really live happily ever after? [More]

Starring: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Hector Elizondo, Jason Alexander

Starring: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Hector Elizondo, Jason Alexander, Ralph Bellamy, Laura San Giacomo, Alex Hyde-White, Amy Yasbeck, Elinor Donahue, Judith Baldwin, Tracy Bjork, Gary Greene, William Gallo, Abdul Salaam el Razzac, Hank Azaria, Larry Hankin, Julie Paris, Rhonda Hansome, Harvey Keenan, Marty Nadler, Lynda Goodfriend, Reed Anthony, Joseph Campanella, Cheri Caspari, Scott A. Marshall, Patrick Richwood, Kathi Marshall, Laurelle Brooks, Don Feldstein, Marvin Braverman, Alex Statler, Jeff Michalski, Patrick D. Stuart, Lloyd T. Williams, R. Darrell Hunter, James Patrick Dunne, Valorie Armstrong, Steve Restivo, Rodney Kageyama, Douglas Stitzel, Larry Miller, Dey Young, Shane Ross, Carol Williard, Minda Burr, Robyn Peterson, Mariann Aalda, R.C. Everbeck, Michael French, Allan Kent, Stacy Keach, Lucinda Crosby, Nancy Locke, Calvin E. Remsberg, Lloyd Nelson, Norman Large, Tracy Reiner, Tom Nolan, John David Carson, Daniel Bardol, Karin Calabro, Bruce Eckstut, Amzie Strickland, Mychael Bates

Director: Garry Marshall

Director: Garry Marshall
Producer: Arnon Milchan, Steven Reuther
Screenwriter: J.F. Lawton
Composer: James Newton Howard

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Takes the Disney princess and puts her in the real world, creating a chick flick with a little bit of edge, a whole lot of heart and and even more chemistry between the film's two leads.

Full Review Source: Movie Views | comment Comment
02/17/09
Ryan Cracknell
Movie Views

Believing in love is swell and all, but maybe we're better off not buying the brand Pretty Woman is selling. [Blu-ray]

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02/16/09
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

The movie itself, a modern update of the Cinderella story, is as contrived as you get--isn't that not-so-secretly what we want?--but at no point is Roberts' performance

Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | comment Comment
02/14/09
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

This is old-fashioned, assembly-line moviemaking without the old panache.

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02/03/09
Richard Corliss
TIME Magazine
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Against all odds, the presence of the incomparable Julia Roberts makes this a damn enjoyable career-defining film for Garry Marshall, and a guilty pleasure for movie lovers.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
01/31/09
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

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
Channel 4 Film

Pic's casting is astute, with Gere underplaying like a sturdy ballet star who hoists the ballerina Roberts on his shoulders.

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04/09/08
Variety Staff
Variety
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Bound to offend prostitutes and millionaires everywhere, this flick is not the street-smart Pygmalion it desperately wants to be.

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04/09/08
TV Guide's Movie Guide

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.

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04/09/08
Toby Rose
Empire Magazine

It's saying Roberts' character becomes a better person when she lands a rich guy and learns to cry at the opera.

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04/09/08
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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He pays her $3,000 and they fall in love -- ain't Hollywood grand?

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04/09/08
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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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'.

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06/24/06
Time Out

Director Garry Marshall somehow lucked into a hit despite his oppressive 125-minute running time and excessive schmaltz.

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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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04/25/06
Cole Smithey
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Plenty sappy and unrealistic but also a funny and dysfunctionally romantic charmer.

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10/07/05
Forrest Hartman
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09/16/05
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily

I’ve always loved this film, even though it is a class-A chick flick.

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09/07/05
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

Gere and Roberts click as "John" and call girl destined for more romantic things.

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09/05/05
James Plath
DVDTown.com

As formulaic and push-button-y as it is, it still houses some truly enjoyable movie-star chemistry,

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08/20/05
Scott Weinberg
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