"You and I are such similar creatures, Vivian. We both screw people for money." Richard Gere has always played a rich snob really well but I can't help shake the feeling that Julia Roberts was shockingly miscast in this role. She does well but the role just doesn't fit. Oh well, can't win them all.
Read Full ReviewPretty average movie. The dialog is maybe a bit ahead of its' time, in terms of toxicity and progressivism, but that's a few lines. Feels really sappy and cardboard. The cast has great charisma, but they can't help playing cardboard in such a simple play. I'm not sure how exactly modern fairytales are made good, but most I've seen are better than this. 6/10
Read Full ReviewA street credible Pygmallion? Edward Lewis is a very rich man, but money, as everyone knows, does not buy everything, and as yet another failed relationship falls by the wayside, Edward faces up to the prospect of a hectic social week on his own. Enter a meeting with ebullient hooker Vivian Ward, who upon impressing Edward with her happy go lucky values, gets herself hired to be his escort for the week ahead, it's a week that both of them are unlikely to ever forget. It almost became the i...
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Opening credits
by Karen Hernandez, Eugene Wright Earl Palmer
First scene of the film
by Wild Child
by Jane Wiedlin
Plays on the radio as Vivian passes the scene of a overdosed hooker
by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Vivian confronts Kit at the club about the missing money
by Gass Mix
Vivian and Kit move to the bar and talk
by Natalie Cole
by Robert Palmer
Vivian and Kit work the street, from Bob Hope to Ella Fitzgerald
by Prince The Revolution
by Four Seasons
Edward and Vivian have dinner with James and David Morse