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Pretty Woman

September 2022

  • Julia Roberts as Julianne Potter in My Best Friend’s Wedding.

    Ranked
    Julia Roberts’s 20 best films – ranked!

    Ahead of the release of Ticket to Paradise, a romcom co-starring George Clooney, we rate the Pretty Woman’s finest work, from Steel Magnolias to My Best Friend’s Wedding

March 2020

  • 1990, PRETTY WOMAN<br>RICHARD GERE &amp; JULIA ROBERTS Character(s): Edward Lewis, Vivian Ward Film 'PRETTY WOMAN' (1990) Directed By GARRY MARSHALL 23 March 1990 SAF20626 Allstar Collection/TOUCHSTONE **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. A Mandatory Credit To TOUCHSTONE is Required. For Printed Editorial Use Only, NO online or internet use. 1111z@yx

    Pretty Woman at 30: conservatism, materialism and glowing star power

  • Danny Mac as Edward and Aimie Atkinson as Vivian in Pretty Woman: The Musical

    Pretty Woman: The Musical review – tasteless romcom returns with tunes

February 2020

  • Suzanne Moore

    Sing a song of sex work – why no one needs a Pretty Woman musical

    Suzanne Moore
    The sanitisation of sex work and the view of women as commodities was deemed acceptable in the 1990s, but it does not deserve a retread, writes Suzanne Moore

April 2019

  • “Mom suit, Henry Holland, H&amp;M

    Less is more: why the shorts power suit is here for summer

    More fun than a skirt, and less formal than trousers, this season’s big trend will have all weather covered

August 2018

  • Andy Karl and Samantha Barks in Pretty Woman: The Musical

    Pretty Woman review – Broadway romcom transfer is a tasteless disaster

    The dated gender politics of the Julia Roberts hit fail to receive an upgrade in a shallow musical that falls apart on stage

May 2017

  • Composite of the films Fierce Creatures, The Sting, Runaway Bride and Chasing Amy

    When big-screen reunions work … and when they don't

    The team behind Oscar-nominated crime thriller Hell and High Water have just announced a new project, but what can they learn from other re-teams that have and haven’t been successful?

March 2015

  • Richard Gere and Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman

    Sex workers protest blog blaming Pretty Woman for glamourising prostitution

    #FacesOfProstitution begins trending in the wake of blogpost from sex trafficking campaigners Exodus Cry, who say that the Julia Roberts film led women to believe sex work was glamorous

February 2010

June 2009

  • Julia Roberts circa 1994

    Classic interview: Julia Roberts

    In 1994, the 26-year-old actress told Timothy Egan about life as a newlywed and the pressures of being the world's highest-paid actress

March 2003

  • Pretty woman

    Camille - the first tart with a heart - has inspired countless plays and films. But her life, says Lyn Gardner, was far from romantic.

March 2001

  • Sitting pretty

    Edward Helmore

    Barring divine intervention or a natural disaster, it's a safe bet that Julia Roberts will hold her first Oscar aloft this evening. In doing so, she will bring a measure of comforting certainty not only to the proceedings, said to be unusually difficult to predict this year, but also to the film industry and to the cinema-going world at large.

June 2000

  • Return of the Pretty Woman? Maybe

    It was one of the most successful films of the decade. It made Julia Roberts an international star. Its fairy-tale plot bore almost no relation to reality. And it's just the kind of movie Hollywood loves. So the only surprising element of news that plans are afoot to make a sequel to Pretty Woman is that it has taken 10 years.

October 1999

  • Odd man in

    Garry Marshall made a star of Julia Roberts with Pretty Woman. Forgive him, he gave us Happy Days, The Odd Couple, and Mork & Mindy too. Ross Jones meets a Hollywood insider with heart

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