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As he is having difficulties driving a manual transmission car, he pays Vivian to drive him to the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel. There he encounters sex worker Vivian Ward. Leaving a business party in the Hollywood Hills, Edward takes his lawyer's Lotus Esprit sports car and accidentally ends up on Hollywood Boulevard in the city's red-light district.
He wants his girlfriend Jessica to accompany him during a business trip, but fed up with being his "beck and call girl", she breaks up with him. Lawton was nominated for a Writers Guild Award and a BAFTA Award.Įdward Lewis, a high-powered corporate raider from New York, buys and dismantles struggling companies, selling off the assets for profit. The film received mixed reviews, though Roberts received a Golden Globe Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance, which catapulted her to stardom. The film saw the highest number of ticket sales in the US ever for a romantic comedy, with Box Office Mojo listing it as the number-one romantic comedy by the highest estimated domestic tickets sold at 42,176,400, slightly ahead of My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) at 41,419,500 tickets. It was widely successful at the box office and was the third-highest-grossing film of 1990. Originally intended to be a dark cautionary tale about class and prostitution in Los Angeles, the film was re-conceived as a romantic comedy with a large budget. It is the first film on-screen collaboration between Gere and Roberts their second film, Runaway Bride, was released in 1999. The film's title Pretty Woman is based on the 1964 song " Oh, Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison. Vivian is hired to be Edward's escort for several business and social functions, and their relationship develops over the course of her week-long stay with him. The film's story centers on down-on-her-luck Hollywood prostitute Vivian Ward and wealthy businessman Edward Lewis. The film stars Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, and features Héctor Elizondo, Ralph Bellamy (in his final performance), Laura San Giacomo, and Jason Alexander in supporting roles. Pretty Woman is a 1990 American romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall, from a screenplay by J.
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