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Ready to Wear (1994)

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Reviews Counted:20

Fresh:6

Rotten:14

Average Rating:4.9/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 13 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Robert Altman delivers another sprawling satire with READY TO WEAR, this time focusing his lens on the tightly knit, pretentious fashion industry. After a popular fashion leader dies during the... Robert Altman delivers another sprawling satire with READY TO WEAR, this time focusing his lens on the tightly knit, pretentious fashion industry. After a popular fashion leader dies during the most important industry gathering of the year in Paris, the question that it might have been murder creates chaos amongst the gathered participants and viewers. Affected parties include his widow, who uses this opportunity to rekindle an old relationship; the dead man's mistress, a designer who is forced to sell out to a Texas boot tycoon; three magazine editors, who all have their eyes on the same photographer; two American reporters whose affair keeps them in bed throughout the gathering; and two aging Roman lovers who are reuniting after many years. The film's many revolving characters and stories collide at the climax, an all-nude fashion show that stuns and excites the crowd. Altman's comedy boasts one of his most star-studded casts, and actors who are playing fictional characters intermingle with popular designers and models who play themselves. This fresh mixing of fiction and reality recalls the director's thrilling THE PLAYER, and the multi-layered story, the masterful NASHVILLE. Standout performances include the late Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Tim Robbins, Julia Roberts, Tracey Ullman, and a hysterical Kim Basinger. [More]

Starring: Tim Robbins, Julia Roberts, Sophia Loren, Kim Basinger

Starring: Tim Robbins, Julia Roberts, Sophia Loren, Kim Basinger, Lyle Lovett, Tracey Ullman, Forest Whitaker, Lili Taylor, Marcello Mastroianni, Stephen Rea, Danny Aiello, Lauren Bacall, Teri Garr, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Chiara Mastroianni, Sally Kellerman, Richard E. Grant, Michel Blanc, Jean Rochefort, François Cluzet, Anouk Aimée, Christy Turlington, Cher, Harry Belafonte, Helena Christensen, Thierry Mugler, Issey Miyake, Elsa Klensch, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Christian Lacroix, Naomi Campbell, Sonia Rykiel

Director: Robert Altman

Director: Robert Altman
Producer: Robert Altman
Composer: Michel Legrand
Screenwriter: Robert Altman, Barbara Shulgasser

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Jun 29, 1999

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  • Ready To Wear
  • A glittering Hollywood all-star cast shines in Robert Altman's deliciously sexy comedy hit READY TO WEAR! At the world's hottest fashion show, there's been a murder. Now, everybody's a suspect -- including two guests who end up sharing much more than a hotel room! Add to the fun a hilariously inept TV reporter on the trail of her most shocking interview yet! They're all caught up in the year's biggest see-and-be-seen events -- where steamy scandals and spectacular supermodels turn up the heat in a riotous show of high-fashion hilarity.
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    01/13/05
    Jules Brenner
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    Sporadically amusing camp mess.

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    08/07/04
    Michael Dequina
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    TheMovieReport.com

    Though it credits Mr. Altman and Barbara Shulgasser as writers, this film seems practically scriptless, to the point where much of it plays like a first rehearsal.

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    08/22/03
    Carol Cling
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    Las Vegas Review-Journal

    Robert Altman may be the most inconsistent American film director alive.

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    05/20/03
    Susan Tavernetti
    Susan Tavernetti
    Palo Alto Weekly

    Altman's much-maligned comedy about the fashion industry deserves another look.

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    05/12/03
    Ken Hanke
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    10/15/01
    Dragan Antulov
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    So overblown, so full of itself and yet so exquisitely empty, that we're left wondering whether, in his haste to expose the Emperor's New Clothes, the artist has stopped near a mirror to check his own dangerously ephemeral finery.

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    It seems like a very long wait to get to the various punch lines.

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    01/01/00
    Chris Hicks
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    Deseret News, Salt Lake City

    I got the feeling that Altman didn’t really have any idea what he wanted to say with this film (which he later conceded in a TV interview).

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    Despite some delicious moments, this sluggish, overlong, halfhearted satire feels like a movie that wanted to go somewhere but never got there.

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