Julia Roberts' own Cinderella story

Rating: Null/10 (16 April 2003)

PRETTY WOMAN (1990) **1/2 Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Ralph Bellamy, Jason Alexander, Laura San Giacomo, Hector Elizondo, Larry Miller. High-concept romantic comedy that made Roberts a superstar with her perfectly cast as a hooker picked up by a millionaire businessman (Gere in all his silky splendor and surprisingly low-key) to be his escort and they wind up falling in love. Only in Hollywood could they turn Cinderella into a sugar-coated whore. Directed with aplomb Garry Marshall who turned the original sordid story a complete 180 degree arc!