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In this modern update on Cinderella, a prostitute and a wealthy businessman fall hard for one another, forming an unlikely pair. While on a business trip in L.A., Edward (Richard Gere), who makes a living buying and breaking up companies, picks up a hooker, Vivian (Julia Roberts), on a lark. After Edward hires Vivian to stay with him for the weekend, the two get closer, only to discover there are significant hurdles to overcome as they try to bridge the gap between their very different worlds.



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I was unimpressed as a little girl. I'm even less impressed as an adult. There is some BS in this world you simply don't need to spin for the ruse of feel-good entertainment. Marshall missed the memo. 'Pretty Woman' is a vile pit of falsehoods wrapped in a candy shell with an ending that makes me fight back nausea. Notable as a career launcher, but I'm saddened that the film itself is still widely considered a classic.



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Despite the cliché, Pretty Woman is memorable, compounded by great performances from Richard Gere and Julia Roberts. Formulaic, but beloved, Pretty Woman thrives on a perfect dream, perhaps a wild and modern interpretation of Cinderella.



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Pretty Woman may be a yuppie fantasy, but the film's slick comedy, soundtrack, and casting can overcome misgivings.
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[T]here's nothing light about this movie's comic touch.




The movie's most outrageous high-concept moment - the stretch limo, private jet, opera - is pure camp.




The Roberts smile - full-lipped, a mile wide and gleaming - is the closest the movies have yet come to capturing sunshine. Such dazzle should not be taken lightly.




The soundtrack, including the Roy Orbison classic that gave the movie its name, is bopping, and the pacing is breezy. Gere is charismatic, and he and Roberts have a subtle chemistry, a complicity that you want to share.




The movie displays an almost preternatural disregard for women's feelings - call it Pygmalion, with a heavy accent on the first syllable - but the comedy is so slickly delivered that audiences may be content with chuckling over its polished surface ...




It's all fairly unconvincing - but its heart is roughly in the right place.




...steps away from all slapstick potential, and serves up a story that's finely balanced between male and female fantasy...




An unequalled exercise in modern, mature romance, which would garner Roberts a Best Actress Academy Award nomination and a lengthy streak of box office stardom.




Pretty Woman is packed with guilty pleasures. It's a fresh, beguiling bottom-drawer Pygmalian that entertains despite its worn premise.




But in the end, what's most ridiculous about the film isn't the lack of realism.




Originally meant to be a serious drama (called $3,000) about a man buying a prostitute for the night, this turned into a delightful romantic comedy in the hands of director Garry Marshall and sent the career of star Julia Roberts into the stratosphere.




Despite its cornball attributes-maybe because of them-this is a sweetheart of an old-fashioned romantic comedy.


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People's reaction to opera the first time they see it is very dramatic. They either love it or hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don't, they may learn to appreciate it, but it will never become part of their soul.

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This article is about the film. For the song sometimes known as "Pretty Woman", see Oh, Pretty Woman . For the song in the musical Sweeney Todd , see Pretty Women . For the Broadway musical, see Pretty Woman: The Musical .
1990 romantic movie directed by Garry Marshall

March 23, 1990  ( 1990-03-23 ) (United States)


" Show Me Your Soul " Released: February 14, 1990
" King of Wishful Thinking " Released: 1990
" It Must Have Been Love " Released: 20 May 1990


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Pretty Woman is a 1990 Amer­i­can ro­man­tic com­edy film di­rected by Garry Mar­shall , from a screen­play by J. F. Law­ton . The film stars Richard Gere and Julia Roberts , and fea­tures Héctor Eli­zondo , Ralph Bel­lamy (in his final per­for­mance), Laura San Gi­a­como , and Jason Alexan­der in sup­port­ing roles. [1] The film's story cen­ters on down-on-her-luck Hol­ly­wood pros­ti­tute Vi­vian Ward, who is hired by Ed­ward Lewis, a wealthy busi­ness­man, to be his es­cort for sev­eral busi­ness and so­cial func­tions, and their de­vel­op­ing re­la­tion­ship over the course of her week-long stay with him. The film's title Pretty Woman is based on " Oh, Pretty Woman ", writ­ten and sung by Roy Or­bi­son . It is the first film on-screen col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween Gere and Roberts; their sec­ond film, Run­away Bride , was re­leased in 1999.

Orig­i­nally in­tended to be a dark cau­tion­ary tale about class and pros­ti­tu­tion in Los An­ge­les , the film was re-con­ceived as a ro­man­tic com­edy with a large bud­get. It was widely suc­cess­ful at the box of­fice and was the third-high­est-gross­ing film of 1990 . The film saw the high­est num­ber of ticket sales in the US ever for a ro­man­tic comedy, [2] with Box Of­fice Mojo list­ing it as the num­ber-one ro­man­tic com­edy by the high­est es­ti­mated do­mes­tic tick­ets sold at 42,176,400, slightly ahead of My Big Fat Greek Wed­ding (2002) at 41,419,500 tickets. [3] The film re­ceived mixed re­views, though Roberts re­ceived a Golden Globe Award and a nom­i­na­tion for the Acad­emy Award for Best Ac­tress for her per­for­mance. In ad­di­tion, screen­writer J. F. Law­ton was nom­i­nated for a Writ­ers Guild Award and a BAFTA Award .

Ed­ward Lewis, a high-pow­ered cor­po­rate raider from New York, buys and dis­man­tles strug­gling com­pa­nies, sell­ing off the as­sets for profit. He wants his girl­friend to ac­com­pany him dur­ing a busi­ness trip, but fed up with being his "beck and call girl," she ends their re­la­tion­ship. Leav­ing a busi­ness party in the Hol­ly­wood Hills , Ed­ward takes his lawyer's Lotus Es­prit sports car and ac­ci­den­tally ends up on Hol­ly­wood Boule­vard in the city's red-light dis­trict . There he en­coun­ters pros­ti­tute Vi­vian Ward. As he is hav­ing dif­fi­cul­ties dri­ving a man­ual trans­mis­sion car, he pays Vi­vian to drive him to the Re­gent Bev­erly Wilshire Hotel . Ed­ward then hires her for the night. The next day, he asks Vi­vian to play his girl­friend, of­fer­ing $3,000 for six days and a new wardrobe. Prior to an im­por­tant busi­ness din­ner, Bar­ney, the hotel's man­ager, tu­tors Vi­vian in proper eti­quette and arranges for her to buy a cock­tail dress after sev­eral snooty shop clerks had re­fused to wait on her. Ed­ward is im­pressed by Vi­vian's trans­for­ma­tion and opens up to her, re­veal­ing de­tails about his per­sonal and busi­ness life.

At a polo match, Ed­ward's at­tor­ney, Phillip, sus­pects Vi­vian is a cor­po­rate spy until Ed­ward re­veals how they met. Phillip later propo­si­tions Vi­vian for her ser­vices after Ed­ward is fin­ished with her. Vi­vian is hurt and fu­ri­ous at Ed­ward for ex­pos­ing her. Ed­ward apol­o­gizes and re­al­izes Vi­vian's straight­for­ward per­son­al­ity is rub­bing off on him. Ed­ward takes Vi­vian by pri­vate jet to see La Travi­ata at the San Fran­cisco Opera . The story of the pros­ti­tute who falls in love with a rich man moves Vi­vian. She breaks her "no kiss­ing" rule while hav­ing sex with Ed­ward. After, mis­tak­enly be­liev­ing Ed­ward is asleep, Vi­vian ad­mits she loves him. Ed­ward later of­fers to help get her off the streets, but she de­clines, say­ing that is not her child­hood "fairy tale" end­ing of being res­cued by a Knight on a white steed.

Ed­ward meets with a ship­build­ing ty­coon, but rather than dis­man­tling the com­pany, he in­stead pro­poses they work to­gether to save it. Phillip, fu­ri­ous that Ed­ward's new di­rec­tion means mak­ing less money, goes to the hotel to con­front him but finds only Vi­vian. Blam­ing her for Ed­ward's chang­ing char­ac­ter, he at­tempts to rape her. Ed­ward ar­rives and punches Phillip, then fires him.

With his busi­ness in L.A. com­plete, Ed­ward asks Vi­vian to stay with him one more night, but only be­cause she wants to, not be­cause he will pay. She re­fuses and leaves. Ed­ward re-thinks his life, and while being dri­ven to the air­port, he has the chauf­feur de­tour to Vi­vian's apart­ment build­ing. He climbs out through the white lim­ou­sine's sun roof and as­cends the fire es­cape to where Vi­vian is wait­ing, over­com­ing his fear of heights and metaphor­i­cally giv­ing Vi­vian her fairy tale dream she spoke about ear­lier.

The film was ini­tially con­ceived as a dark drama about pros­ti­tu­tion in Los An­ge­les in the 1980s. [4] The re­la­tion­ship be­tween Vi­vian and Ed­ward also orig­i­nally in­volved con­tro­ver­sial themes, in­clud­ing Vi­vian being ad­dicted to drugs ; part of the deal was that she had to stay off co­caine for a week. Ed­ward even­tu­ally throws her out of his car and dri­ves off. The orig­i­nal script by J.F. Law­ton, called 3000 , [5] ended with Vi­vian and her pros­ti­tute friend on the bus to Disneyland. [4] Pro­ducer Laura Ziskin con­sid­ered these el­e­ments detri­men­tal to a sym­pa­thetic por­trayal of Vi­vian, and they were re­moved or as­signed to Kit. The deleted scenes have been found, and some were in­cluded on the DVD re­leased for the film's 15th anniversary. [4] In one, Vi­vian tells Ed­ward, "I could just pop ya good and be on my way", in­di­cat­ing her lack of in­ter­est in " pil­low talk ". In an­other, she is con­fronted by a drug dealer, Car­los, then res­cued by Ed­ward when the limo dri­ver Dar­ryl gets his gun out.

Though in­spired by such films as Wall Street and The Last De­tail , [5] the film bears a re­sem­blance to Pyg­malion myths : par­tic­u­larly George Bernard Shaw 's play of the same name , which also formed the basis for the Broad­way mu­si­cal My Fair Lady . It was Walt Dis­ney Stu­dios then-pres­i­dent Jef­frey Katzen­berg who in­sisted the film be re-writ­ten as a mod­ern-day fairy tale and love story, as op­posed to the orig­i­nal dark drama. It was pitched to Touch­stone Pic­tures and re-writ­ten as a ro­man­tic comedy. [6] The title 3000 was changed be­cause Dis­ney ex­ec­u­tives thought it sounded like a title for a sci­ence fic­tion film. [7]

The film is one of two movies that trig­gered a resur­gence of ro­man­tic com­edy in Hol­ly­wood, the other being When Harry Met Sally... . Fol­low­ing this film's suc­cess, Roberts be­came the ro­man­tic com­edy queen of the 1990s.

Cast­ing of the film was a rather lengthy process. Mar­shall had ini­tially con­sid­ered Christo­pher Reeve , Daniel Day-Lewis , Kevin Kline , and Den­zel Wash­ing­ton for the role of Ed­ward, and Al Pa­cino and Burt Reynolds turned it down. [8] Pa­cino went as far as doing a cast­ing read­ing with Roberts be­fore re­ject­ing the part. [9] Gere ini­tially re­fused but when he met with Roberts, she per­suaded him and he even­tu­ally agreed to play Lewis. [10] He re­port­edly started off much more ac­tive in his role; but Garry Mar­shall took him aside and said "No, no, no, Richard. In this movie, one of you moves and one of you does not. Guess which one you are?" [11]
Julia Roberts was not the first choice for the role of Vi­vian, and was not wanted by Dis­ney. Many other ac­tresses were con­sid­ered. Mar­shall orig­i­nally en­vi­sioned Karen Allen for the role; when she de­clined, au­di­tions went to many bet­ter-known ac­tresses of the time in­clud­ing Molly Ring­wald , [12] who turned it down be­cause she felt un­com­fort­able play­ing a prostitute. [ citation needed ] Winona Ryder au­di­tioned, but was turned down be­cause Mar­shall felt she was "too young". Jen­nifer Con­nelly was also dis­missed for the same reason. [4] Emily Lloyd turned it down as it con­flicted with her shoot­ing for the film Mer­maids . [13]

Meg Ryan , who was a top choice of Mar­shall's, turned it down as well. Ac­cord­ing to a note writ­ten by Mar­shall, Mary Steen­bur­gen was also among the first choices. Diane Lane came very close to being cast (the script was much darker at the time); they had gone as far as cos­tume fit­tings, but due to sched­ul­ing con­flicts she could not ac­cept. Michelle Pfeif­fer turned the role down, say­ing she did not like the script's "tone." [14] Daryl Han­nah was also con­sid­ered, but be­lieved the role was "de­grad­ing to women". [14] Va­le­ria Golino de­clined, doubt­ing it would work with her thick Ital­ian accent. [ citation needed ] And Jen­nifer Jason Leigh had auditioned. [15] When all the other ac­tresses turned down the role, 21-year-old Julia Roberts , a rel­a­tive un­known, with only the sleeper hit Mys­tic Pizza (1988) and the yet-to-be-re­leased Steel Mag­no­lias (1989), for which she was nom­i­nated for the Acad­emy Award for Best Sup­port­ing Ac­tress , to her credit, won the role of Vi­vian. Her per­for­mance made her a star. J.F. Law­ton, writer of the orig­i­nal screen­play, has sug­gested that the film was ul­ti­mately given a happy end­ing be­cause of the chem­istry of Gere and Roberts. [5]

Vet­eran actor Ralph Bel­lamy , who plays James Morse, ap­pears in his final act­ing per­for­mance be­fore his death in 1991. Jason Alexan­der , who had also re­cently been cast for his role as the bum­bling George Costanza in Se­in­feld , was cast as Philip Stuckey. A VHS copy of Pretty Woman would ap­pear in Se­in­feld's apart­ment in later sea­sons of Se­in­feld as a homage to Alexan­der's par­tic­i­pa­tion in the film.

The film's bud­get was sub­stan­tial, at $14 mil­lion, so pro­duc­ers could shoot in many locations. [4] Most film­ing took place in Los An­ge­les, Cal­i­for­nia , specif­i­cally in Bev­erly Hills , and in­side sound­stages at Walt Dis­ney Stu­dios in Bur­bank . The es­car­got restau­rant the "Voltaire" was shot at the restau­rant "Rex," now called "Ci­cada". Scenes set in the Bev­erly Wilshire Hotel lobby were shot at the Am­bas­sador Hotel in Los An­ge­les . Film­ing com­menced on July 24, 1989, but was im­me­di­ately plagued by prob­lems. These in­cluded Fer­rari and Porsche de­clin­ing the prod­uct place­ment op­por­tu­nity for the car Ed­ward drove, nei­ther firm wish­ing to be as­so­ci­ated with prostitutes. [4] Lotus Cars saw the place­ment value, and sup­plied a Sil­ver 1989.5 Es­prit SE (which was later sold). [16]

Shoot­ing was a gen­er­ally pleas­ant, easy-go­ing ex­pe­ri­ence, as the bud­get was broad and the shoot­ing sched­ule was not tight. [4] While shoot­ing the scene where Vi­vian is lying down on the floor of Ed­ward's pent­house, watch­ing re­runs of I Love Lucy , Garry Mar­shall had to tickle Roberts' feet (out of cam­era range) to get her to laugh. [17] The scene in which Gere play­fully snaps the lid of a jew­elry case on her fin­gers was im­pro­vised, and her sur­prised laugh was gen­uine. The red dress Vi­vian wears to the opera has been listed among the most un­for­get­table dresses of all time. [18]

Dur­ing the scene in which Roberts sang to a Prince song in the bath­tub, slid down and sub­merged her head under the bub­bles; she emerged to find the crew had left ex­cept for the cam­era­man, who cap­tured the mo­ment on film. In the love scene, she was so stressed that a vein be­came no­tice­able on her fore­head and had to be mas­saged by Mar­shall and Gere. She also de­vel­oped a case of hives , and calamine lo­tion was used to soothe her skin until film­ing resumed. [4] The film­ing was com­pleted on No­vem­ber 30. [19]

In its open­ing week­end, the film was at num­ber one at the box of­fice , gross­ing $11,280,591 and av­er­ag­ing $8,513 per theater. [20] De­spite drop­ping to num­ber two in its sec­ond week­end, it grossed more with $12,471,670. [20] It was num­ber one at the box of­fice for four non-con­sec­u­tive weeks, and in the Top 10 for 16 weeks. [20] It has grossed $178,406,268 in the United States and $285,000,000 in other coun­tries for a total world­wide gross of $463,406,268. [3] It was also the fourth high­est-gross­ing film of the year in the United States [21] and the third high­est-gross­ing worldwide. [22] The film re­mains Dis­ney 's high­est-gross­ing R-rated re­lease ever. [23]

On re­view ag­gre­ga­tor Rot­ten Toma­toes the film holds an ap­proval rat­ing of 64% based on 69 re­views, with an av­er­age rat­ing of 6.00/10. The web­site's crit­i­cal con­sen­sus states, " Pretty Woman may be a yup­pie fan­tasy, but the film's slick com­edy, sound­track, and cast­ing can over­come misgivings." [24] On Meta­critic , the film has a weighted av­er­age score of 51 out of 100, based on 18 crit­ics, in­di­cat­ing "mixed or av­er­age reviews." [25] Au­di­ences polled by Cin­e­maS­core gave the film an av­er­age grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale. [26]

Owen Gleiber­man of En­ter­tain­ment Weekly gave the film a D, say­ing it "starts out as a neo-Pyg­malion com­edy" and with "its tough-hooker hero­ine, it can work as a fem­i­nist ver­sion of an up­scale princess fan­tasy." Gleiber­man also said it "pre­tends to be about how love tran­scends money," but "is re­ally ob­sessed with sta­tus symbols." [27] On its twen­ti­eth an­niver­sary, Gleiber­man wrote an­other ar­ti­cle, say­ing that while he felt he was right, he would have given it a B today. [28] Ca­rina Chocano of The New York Times said the movie "wasn't a love story, it was a money story. Its logic de­pended on a dis­con­nect be­tween char­ac­ter and nar­ra­tive, be­tween image and mean­ing, be­tween money and value, and that made it not clue­lessly tra­di­tional but thor­oughly postmodern." [29]

The sound­track fea­tures the song " Oh, Pretty Woman " by Roy Or­bi­son , which in­spired its title. Rox­ette 's " It Must Have Been Love " reached No. 1 on the Bill­board Hot 100 in June 1990. The sound­track also fea­tures " King of Wish­ful Think­ing " by Go West , " Show Me Your Soul " by Red Hot Chili Pep­pers , "No Ex­pla­na­tion" by Peter Cetera , "Wild Women Do" by Na­talie Cole and "Fallen" by Lau­ren Wood . The sound­track went on to be cer­ti­fied triple plat­inum by the RIAA . [30]

The opera fea­tured in the film is La Travi­ata , which also served as in­spi­ra­tion for its plot. The highly dra­matic aria frag­ment that is re­peated is the end of " Dammi tu forza! " ("Give me strength!"), from the opera. Roberts sings the song " Kiss " by Prince while she is in the tub and Gere's char­ac­ter is on the phone. Back­ground music is com­posed by James New­ton Howard . The piano piece Gere's char­ac­ter plays in the hotel lobby was ac­tu­ally com­posed and per­formed by him. En­ti­tled "He Sleeps/Love Theme", this piano com­po­si­tion is in­spired by Bruce Spring­steen 's " Rac­ing in the Street ".

The sound­track was re­leased on March 13, 1990 by EMI . [31] [32]

* Sales fig­ures based on cer­ti­fi­ca­tion alone. ^ Ship­ments fig­ures based on cer­ti­fi­ca­tion alone.

A stage mu­si­cal adap­ta­tion of the film opened on Broad­way on July 20, 2018 in pre­views, of­fi­cially on Au­gust 16 at the Ned­er­lan­der The­atre . [43] This fol­lows an out-of-town try­out at the Ori­en­tal The­atre in Chicago, which will run from March 13 to April 15, 2018. The mu­si­cal has music and lyrics by Bryan Adams and Jim Val­lance ; the late Garry Mar­shall and J.F. Law­ton wrote the book; and Jerry Mitchell is the di­rec­tor and choreographer. [44] The Chicago and Broad­way casts fea­tured Saman­tha Barks , in her Broad­way debut as Vi­vian and Steve Kazee as Ed­ward. Barks fin­ished her run as Vi­vian on 21 July 2019 and was re­placed by Jil­lian Mueller the fol­low­ing evening, with Bren­nin Hunt, of ‘Rent’ fame, as­sum­ing the role of Edward. [44] Orfeh por­trayed Kit, and Jason Danieley played Philip Stuckey. Eric An­der­son por­trayed the role of Mr. Thomp­son and Kings­ley Leggs played the role of James Morse. [43]

" Fame '90 " (performed by David Bowie )
"Tangled" (performed by Jane Wiedlin )
"No Explanation" (performed by Peter Cetera )
"Fallen" (performed by Lauren Wood )
" Oh, Pretty Woman " (written and performed by Roy Orbison )
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