Pretty Woman (1990) - Watch-Along Version
Added 2025-11-05 23:49:40 +0000 UTCJulia Roberts, Richard Gere, Jason Alexander, Hector Elizondo, Laura San Giacomo, Ralph Bellamy, Larry Miller
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Oh that's interesting
Kevin R Studer
2025-11-07 05:54:02 +0000 UTCThe Key to catching the Garry Marshall cameo here is the voice!
Rich H
2025-11-07 02:56:18 +0000 UTCNow we gotta get you Fellas to watch The Princess Diaries. It continues Hector's legacy of knocking roles out of the park for Gary.
Peggy G
2025-11-06 15:59:03 +0000 UTCOh man, that’s clever!
Kevin R Studer
2025-11-06 14:10:11 +0000 UTCThank you!
fire12wife
2025-11-06 11:18:08 +0000 UTCThe opera they go to is "La Traviata" from 1853. It's about a prostitute that falls in love with a rich guy. Sound familiar? 😅 This movie is such a feel-good watch for me. It's got some dark undertones, but I like how the two leads help each other grow as people. And all the hotel staff are just such wonderful characters. It's funny to me how it's rated R over there in the States, but it's rated PG-12 over here in The Netherlands. Both on Hulu. 😂
Onno Smits
2025-11-06 11:10:50 +0000 UTCI was thinking of buying a reaction to Ordinary People given Mary Tyler Moore's and Donald Southerland's superior performances...
Actuarial Lurker
2025-11-06 01:29:37 +0000 UTCDAMN IT! We were looking, too!
Kevin R Studer
2025-11-06 01:06:50 +0000 UTCMan. The AIDS epidemic (and how poorly we handled it in America) is a blight. Reagan's handling of AIDS reminds me of the ignorance at the top we faced in America during Trump's covid reign.
Kevin R Studer
2025-11-06 01:06:32 +0000 UTCYikes. That is ironic.
Kevin R Studer
2025-11-06 01:04:48 +0000 UTCThe first time I heard of that film was at the Oscars, when it had been nominated for the acting categories. Looks really interesting!
Kevin R Studer
2025-11-06 01:04:26 +0000 UTCYes I Love Lucy invented the 3 camera system and was the first show shot all on film. If you haven’t seen it we’ll have to get the Sorkin I Love Lucy movie on the list.
Jonathan
2025-11-06 01:00:37 +0000 UTCGarry Marshall is tied to a large number of hit tv shows from the 60s to the 90s. He gained notoriety in the business writing for the Dick van Dyke Show. One of his last tv shows was a reality show where he coached film students in working on their short films.
Jonathan
2025-11-06 00:59:12 +0000 UTCFor a while, this was the highest grossing film made by Disney and paid for the Disney movies of the early 90s. Disney was a target for a hostile takeover in the mid 80s so Edwards character is a bit ironic.
Jonathan
2025-11-06 00:55:50 +0000 UTCThis movie had much richer character development than Runaway Bride and contrary to my comments on that film it seemed like Gere was "present" for this one as opposed to kind of "phoning it in" on the other and the 2 leads were more "likable:. Believability: Being a single, straight male living in NYC aged 24 in 1990 when this came out I don't think it captured the climate of dating and sex back then in light of HIV/AIDs. I don't think anyone with his money would be treating sex workers as "girlfriends". In January 1990 the first case of a patient contracting HIV while being a patient of an HIV+ dentist occurred and I remember the paranoia among straight people. As an actuary who started in the life insurance industry in Spring 1990 we were scrambling for ANY data on incidence rates, transmission etc and there was very little and the ignorant "straight" public was freaked out and finally aware of their risk of the disease. Dating in college in the mid to late 1980s was not as promiscuous as in the 1970s- but you have seen American Psycho and it was true regarding how straight, rich, young professional people viewed AIDs as a "gay disease" and how it had much less impact on behavior. I heard "war stories" from older colleagues how sales people doing business to business insurance still acted like Mad Men in the 1970s with brothels, strippers etc for clients, but that in the 1980s this turned into obscenely expensive meals and wine like you saw in American Psycho. My "welcome to the firm" lunch ran 6 hours with well over $1,000 spent on wine courses, cheese courses, pre-dessert sambuca, cigars for people who smoked etc. But this died out during the 1991 recession. By the time this movie was released the climate was MUCH more conservative at work compared to what I saw at school just a few years earlier or what my colleagues in their 40s told me about the late 70s. That made this "Cinderella" story seem very far-fetched
Actuarial Lurker
2025-11-06 00:30:28 +0000 UTCThank you, Kate!!
Peggy G
2025-11-06 00:25:34 +0000 UTCI'm shocked this one escaped your viewing until now. Now I know what I'm watching tonight!
Peggy G
2025-11-06 00:25:03 +0000 UTCYou missed Garry again but he made it hard for you this time. He was the homeless man Richard Gere tried to get directions from.
Jonathan
2025-11-06 00:19:39 +0000 UTCTo say I'm excited for this is an understatement. Thanks, Kate and happy birthday!
Cristy
2025-11-06 00:00:35 +0000 UTC
