Pretty Woman (1990)

Regisseur:

Garry Marshall

Drehbuchautor (WGA):

J.F. Lawton (written by)

Premierendatum:

23. März 1990 (USA)

Genre:

Komödie | Drama | Romanze

Werbezeile:

Who knew it was so much fun to be a hooker?

Plot:

A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love.

Plot Keywords:

Sex | Tycoon | Dental Floss | Fish Out Of Water | Nude Body Double

Filmpreise:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 7 wins & 9 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Such a dream, just you DO NOT think

US TV Schedule:

Sun. July 20

5:30 PM

TBS

Besetzung

Richard Gere	...	Edward Lewis
Julia Roberts	...	Vivian Ward
Ralph Bellamy	...	James Morse
Jason Alexander	...	Philip Stuckey
Laura San Giacomo	...	Kit De Luca
Alex Hyde-White	...	David Morse
Amy Yasbeck	...	Elizabeth Stuckey
Elinor Donahue	...	Bridget
Hector Elizondo	...	Barney Thompson
Judith Baldwin	...	Susan
Jason Randal	...	Magician
Bill Applebaum	...	Howard
Tracy Bjork	...	Female Guest
Gary Greene	...	Male Guest
Billy Gallo	...	Carlos (as William Gallo)

Alternativ:

$ 3,000 (USA) (working title)
Pretty Woman (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality and some language. (director's cut)

Länge:

119 Min | USA:125 Min (director's cut)

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch | Italienisch | Japanisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Technicolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby

Altersfreigabe:

New Zealand:M | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Brazil:12 | Iceland:L | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | Finland:K-12 | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:18 | Sweden:7 | UK:15 | USA:R | West Germany:12

Drehorte:

617 S. Olive Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Firma:

Silver Screen Partners IV

Dies und das:

Christopher Reeve was originally considered for the Edward Lewis role.

Pannen:

Geographische Fehler: The movie is set in L.A. but the large red art form outside Edwards’s office is a statue in downtown Chicago.

Dialogzitate:

[first lines]
Magician at party: No matter what they say, it's all about money. So let's imagine, ladies, that you're a savings and loan officer. Watch - one, two, three; see, you've got it all, and we've got nothing. You've got all four, take a look.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Be My Baby Tonight (#2.23)" (1992)

Soundtrack:

Fallen

Such a dream, just you DO NOT think

Obviously similar to Shaw's "Pygmalion", but updated, more modern.

A lovely dream, one very old: rescuing a prostitute from the street. (Not in Woody Allen's sickish-moody way.)

However, if you wish to dream this one, be sure you do NOT start to think very logically . . . She is healthy, not on drugs, not on alcohol, not even a smoker; no syphilis, no gonorrhea, no AIDS wounds on her legs, nothing, she is just perfectly absolutely healthy. Body and mind. She is not a criminal, not inclined to steal anything, she even values love and dignity more than money. Oh, she has no pimp, who would be the other man (other than Richard Gere) in her life; nobody to protect her from smart types who walk off without paying; the pimp would explode the whole romance instantly. (Instead, a girl friend.)

She has a golden soul, full of goodness, and loves art, and feels for art. High-society types around them appear silly, artificial, stuffy. (Different forks.) She is natural. She even was a good student (!) and . . . might be again? She loves to bathe, and half the time we see her happy in the bath tub (which is a powerful signal and symbol for CLEAN, CLEAN; she even sings so super-ultra-charmingly in the bath; she wants to wash off the foolishness of her previous few months of street. And she can do it.

But with all those qualities, WHY would she ever become a prostitute in the first place? Don't think, don't think. Just dream, it is lovely.