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Rating: 2/10 (2 July 2019)

I will never understand why this movie is described as a "modern Cinderella" story. Does it mean that contemporary women need to be prostitutes to meet a "prince"? Or that prostitution is the sort of career you would recommend to your daughter?
Everybody knows the wildly unrealistic plot, which I found stupid years ago and still do, whenever I happen to stumble on this stupid movie on TV. In fact, it seems stupider every time.
Roberts as Vivian is the unbearable "street wise, gold-hearted hooker" who exists only in movies. And, as it happens in movies, "respectable" people are obviously less deserving of respect than Vivian, because they're all liars and hypocrites and the only "honest" person is the hooker.
The "romance" Vivian develops with her customer Edward, is based on a fat paycheck for a week of her services. Really the best way to start a relationship. I can imagine Edward and Vivian twenty years after reminiscing their tender meet-cute... "You were such a pretty hooker with your miniskirt and boots walking the Hollywood Boulevard looking for a john.."