Hey Let's Move To LA!

Rating: Null/10 (27 December 2005)

No one will ever be able to replace Julia Roberts. Reading the trivia here, and if it's to be believed, mulling on who was considered for her role... There is no way any of the others would have worked as well as she does. She even makes some scenes in Runaway Bride work just on her personality alone.
Back home, according to recent surveys, she's the #1 woman men dream of sleeping with. She doesn't impress me this way, but looking back on this movie one sees class and a fantastic actress.
Everyone is good here - Gere too actually, and Hector is priceless. It's very well made and extremely well acted.
The only drawback - two points on the ten star scale - is that this movie resulted in such an influx of US midwest girls all intent on coming to LA and hooking on the streets and meeting their own Richard Gere.
It's reminiscent of how people were reputed to accost Larry Hagman on the street and rip him apart for being such a bastard, unable to distinguish between Larry the actor and JR Ewing the scum bag.
And that's something a lot of people will never understand. And in the case of this movie, with all the 'chicken hawks' working the area, it was a real tragedy. So one wishes the movie could have had a slightly different import.
Other than that, watch it and study how a great actress operates and above all study a great - a phenomenal - actress. And kudos to Pelle Gessle for a great end song.