Another great example of a naturally funny comedy, thanks mostly to Julia Roberts' wonderful portrayal as the prostitute. Wonderful premise and wonderful acting. The chemistry between Richard Gere and Julia Roberts makes it work to credible perfection. This is one of my all-time favorite comedies.

"No matter what they say, it's all about money." That's the take home lesson from the movie. Romance? Epiphany? Falling in love? No, money. 1990, the beginning of the "Greed is Good" era. Reading the user reviews is really depressing. We're that far gone that people can see this as a Cinderella story. Having to work as a prostitute? Being paid to pretend to date someone? That's a love story? It is if you're a banal materialist. She got lotsa bling and things in the end. Happily ever after. What more is there to life anyway.Nauseating. Thoroughly nauseating. The movie and the glowing reviews by the soulless lucre mongers stumbling through life.

I don't think Julia Roberts fits the star role, not exactly a Pretty Woman to look at. I can think of actresses who would fit the role much better.

About this movie enough to say one thing: "It's standard", in the broadest sense of the word. The standard of the love of melodrama. Sample of the lyric comedy. The standard of harmonious combination of literary text and visual image. The measure of a whole generation of movies of the 1990s: Indecent proposal, Sleepless in Seattle, French kiss, You've got mail, Notting Hill, etc. After receiving the baton from the cinema of the 1980s, in which the romantic side of the relationship was imbued with a hint of nostalgic sadness, film made by Garry Marshall sets a new vector in understanding when and from which arises the situation of attraction between a man and a woman. The fact of how at first the Director had planned to remove social drama (millionaire + prostitute addicted to drugs), and then was forced to switch to lyric comedy, is well known. Thanks to this fact approach to the conflict between a man and a woman remained as a real drama. For example. The film is saturated with a large number of contrasts: a pessimistic smart hero and an optimistic beautiful heroine, a world of pure luxury and a dark place of depravity, a large planned business and a small random freelance. There are a lot of different details in the cultural area of the film. Every detail is like a little story. It has its place, its important phrase, its directorial promise. Prostitution is not the easiest way of getting money. We know it from the first minute of the film, when Vivian sees the body of her friend-hooker in the street. To further this thought is repeated in different ways. There are many similar details in the life of the heroine and in the fate of "Ladies with camellias". Basically, a comedy is an easy movie. The audience laughs when they see the problems of the hero. But when we see the Vivian's problems, we want to help her. The vulnerability and optimism of the heroine is strong parts of her image. Vivian appears before Edward as the cute baby and as the fury, as the plain man and as the posh woman, as the nerdy and as the neophyte. Russian writer Ivan Bogdanovich said: "My Darling! You are very beautiful in any clothes". The phrase reflects the Vivian's attractiveness. For me, she is not Cinderella (A lot of people think so). For me, she is a sort of "mistress into maid". She is beautiful, playful, assertive and wise every day.