Badly cast but good movie

Rating: 7/10 (16 October 2006)

I just wish they had discovered Rosie Perez by then who would have been more believable than Julia Roberts. That would have been a great movie. Julia Roberts is too much of a model type who just cannot carry it off even though her acting is always excellent.
The whole movie does give a sense of the decadence of the 1980s, which dates it wonderfully. Obviously, this project was on the cards and in production before the crash of the 90s. It's incredible people really thought it wouldn't end.
I'm not sure I could live a life where everyone around me just sees dollar signs and I think that someone who does would be shallower than Richard Gere's hard but soft man, which comes across as a little artificial.