Has a very false ring

Rating: 4/10 (30 July 2003)

I only watched this movie to the end because it was Richard Gere and Julia Roberts who are very watchable no matter what. But I couldn't buy much of what I saw to the point of distraction. For instance: Vivian was a prostitute who couldn't pay her rent and was intimidated by a couple of sales clerks then in the course of a few days we are suppose to believe her outlook had changed so much that she would turn down Edward's offer to 'keep' her without a second thought. Then we are suppose to believe in the same amount of time Edward goes from buying Viv's companionship to wanting to set her up in an apartment to overcoming his fear of heights in order to impress her. Also this story probably could have been told better as a drama without having to lose any of it's comic moments.