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The New York Times ' Janet Maslin wrote: "Despite this quintessentially late 80's outlook, and despite a covetousness and underlying misogyny that bring Mr. Marshall's earlier 'Overboard' to mind, 'Pretty Woman' manages to be giddy, lighthearted escapism much of the time. Ms. Roberts, as noted, is a complete knockout, and this performance will ...
The musical is based on the 1990 film Pretty Woman. [3] The film was produced on a budget of just $14 million, [ 4 ] earning over $463 million in global box office receipts. [ 5 ] Written by J. F. Lawton , and directed by Garry Marshall , the musical centers around Vivian Ward, a free spirited Hollywood prostitute who lives with her sarcastic ...
Highest-grossing films of 1990 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Home Alone: 20th Century Fox: $285,761,243 2 Ghost: Paramount: $217,631,306 3 Dances with Wolves: Orion: $184,208,848 4 Pretty Woman: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures: $178,406,268 5 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: New Line: $135,265,915 6 The Hunt for Red October ...
Runaway Bride is a 1999 American screwball romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall, and starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere.The screenplay, written by Sara Parriott and Josann McGibbon, is about a reporter (Gere) who undertakes to write a story about a woman (Roberts) who has left a string of fiancés at the altar.
Janet Maslin (The New York Times) Harold McCarthy; Todd McCarthy (Variety, The Hollywood Reporter) Michael Medved (New York Post, Sneak Previews) Nell Minow (rogerebert.com and moviedom.com) Elvis Mitchell (The New York Times, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, The Detroit Free Press) Khalid Mohammed (Hindustan Times)
During the late 1990s, she played the lead in the romantic comedies My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Notting Hill (1999), and Runaway Bride (1999). In 2000, Roberts became the first actress to earn $20 million, for playing the eponymous environmental activist in the Steven Soderbergh -directed biographical film Erin Brockovich .
Pretty Woman (Washington Post review), March 1990: "You could sit through Touchstone Pictures' "Pretty Woman" and just enjoy it as a slick, instantly and entertainingly digestible Cinderella fable in which sweet little hooker Julia Roberts falls for lonely-at-the-top corporate raider Richard Gere.
Touchstone Pictures was an American film production label of Walt Disney Studios, founded and owned by The Walt Disney Company.Feature films released under the Touchstone label were produced and financed by Walt Disney Studios, and featured more mature themes targeted at adult audiences than typical Walt Disney Pictures films.