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    Pretty Woman (1990)

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    Pretty Woman is a funny, beautifully photographed, old-fashioned yet modern romantic love story.

    Julia Roberts plays Vivian, a Hollywood hooker who shows lonely, self-made millionaire Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) – a stranger in town – how to get back to Beverly Hills.

    Naturally, she stays for the weekend and what begins as just another business proposition turns to real fairy-tale affection.

    She loosens him up. He gives her a sense of value, self-confidence, and a limitless expense account. It’s miraculous what an American Express card can do . . .

    Director Garry Marshall borrows his ideas shamelessly but has the wit and visual style to make it all seem fresh.

    Some of the dialogue is hilarious, like when arguing whores on the sidewalk stars of Hollywood Boulevard establish territorial imperatives with lines like “I got the Ritz Brothers all the way to Carole Lombard – you go work up by Esther Williams!”

    One of the highest-grossing pictures of 1990, Pretty Woman succeeded in making the “date movie” popular again.

    Not bad for a film that was originally conceived as a depressing look at prostitution in Los Angeles, as based on the original script entitled 3 Thousand.

    Edward Lewis
    Richard Gere
    Vivian Ward
    Julia Roberts
    James Morse
    Ralph Bellamy
    Philip Stuckey
    Jason Alexander
    Kit De Luca
    Laura San Giacomo
    Barney Thompson
    Hector Elizondo
    David Morse
    Alex Hyde-White
    Elizabeth Stuckey
    Amy Yasbeck
    Bridget
    Elinor Donahue
    Susan
    Judith Baldwin
    Howard
    Bill Applebaum
    Carlos
    Billy Gallo

    Director
    Garry Marshall

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