What happened after.....???

[IamFrauBlucher]

The end of the film Pretty Woman....

I'm trying to imagine how it was 5-10 years later.

I bloody hate the film, so my imagined follow up is probably a very cynical one.

Hopefully Vivian set up her own business restoring cars, became fantastically successful and sacked Edward off!

Ha ha that's quite a nice one @ScreamingValenta. Then they could turn it into a kind of action film with her doing NASCAR rallies or something.

And yes I don't see them together in the future. I can see him rethinking his snap decision of a week and rubbing her nose in her previous life style until she snaps.

Well Sandra B is smart, so she was thrifty and kept most of the money he gave her for purchases in a secret bank account. By the time they split, she had enough saved to invest some, which she did using the help of a financial expert she did a service exchange with. She used the rest to retrain as a paralegal.

Edward is so damn boring, I can't see any woman wanting to stay with him long-term for reasons other than his vast wealth. Vivian needs someone quirkier and more dynamic.

Another 'future' might be that she has children, then takes off, leaving Edward as full-time single dad changing nappies all day long.

By "service exchange" you don't mean car service there ReaganSomerset?

So in the second film she'd be a flyer in the legal world but would she still be with him?

Yes why don't I see them together at all in the end?

He was really boring. Plus his lawyer (the Seinfeld guy) surely would've told EVERYONE about their secret and alienated them from his rich society friends. I guess he had enough money not to care though.

I'm sure I don't know what you're on about, OP.

It is a problematic ending. Like knocked up, if you've seen that? Lovely ending, but the guy is still an illegal Canadian immigrant in America. How does he manage to land a job? And what happens when the American government eventually catches up with him?

I think lots of romcom endings fail to stand up to scrutiny. I reckon Vivian and the guy wouldn't last long term, but you never know. She wouldn't need to return to prostitution so it's still a nice ending.

Yes because as part of having the whole fairytale she would've turned down the suggestion of a Pre-Nup

I also don't think Baby and Johnny made it either after all the summer drama and romance in Dirty Dancing.

I think she got fed up of having to massage his ego and lack of confidence, while he spent years trying to discover his true life path, and he wouldn't get circumcised or some such thing.

I have seen Knocked up, but I can't for the life of me remember much about it! I might have a watch this weekend.

I watched it many times during pregnancy. Throughout there are clips of a developing baby showing the weeks gestation alongside, and I liked to see how far into the film I could get until Katherine Heigl's pregnancy surpassed my current stage.

There are very few films that use pregnancy as the plot. Basically it was that or Juno.

@reagansomerset sandraB??? It’s Julia Roberts who plays Vivian in pretty woman.

@fluffyears

Lol. I'm comically bad at names. In my defence they are quite similar (to me at least!)

@reagansomerset do so am I so thought it might be me.i thought Bradley Walsh was the American actor in the hangover

I don't have the foggiest who Bradley Walsh is, if it makes you feel better.

I most certainly would not ever sack Richard Gere off! Or Patrick Swayze come to that. They probably all stayed together and had hot loving that I can only dream about.

Do you think Bow? I think Baby would've grown up to become much more conservative and would've been constantly annoyed with Johnny coming to the dinner table in his black vest and Cuban heels when they had guests.

At fifty he'd still refuse to get rid of the Brylcream teddy and leather jacket look and her attraction to him would fade, the sex would just wither to a standstill.

He'd spend his evenings overweight, sweaty and desperately flirting with pensioners in the community hall on Pachenga Thursdays.

Nope. Patrick Swayze was still red hot in his 50s. Can’t imagine the sex withering at all

I think they both died of AIDS.

JustHereForThePooStories well, aren't you just a ray of sunshine 😂

I just utterly hated that film

What I want to know is, after the end of Sliding Doors, does Gwyneth Paltrow live happily ever with the second reality John Hannah or does she just continue to die horribly after a couple of months in every single incarnation for ever?
Is there a weird universe somewhere where Gwyneth Paltrow is just perpetually meeting John Hannah in a variety of situations and as soon as someone says Nobody expects The Spanish Inquisition, her life expectancy immediately drops to 6 to 8 weeks?

But re:Pretty Woman, Edward immediately sacked off his legal bloke for giving his lady friend a back-hander in a hotel room and, due to his wealth and influence, ensured that legal bloke never worked again and was entirely ostracised from their entire circle. So her previous profession would quickly become moot as no-one who ever found out would ever dare mention it again for fear of professional suicide.
Three or four years later, they would be living comfortably (obviously) with a small child or two, with Vivian good naturedly keeping a lid on Edward's workaholic nature. They live happily ever after until 22 years into the future, Edward drops dead of a heart attack at a business meeting in Geneva, a couple of months before his planned retirement. Edward Jr is at Harvard Business School and continues the family empire on graduating.
Vivian becomes a campaigner for various charities supporting underpriviledged women, helping them to get an education and find stability. She lives into her eighties, and on her death, the family fortune is used to create the Vivian Lewis Foundation For The Rescue And Rehabilitation of Trafficking Victims.

Re: Dirty Dancing..... Baby gets sick of Johnny's shit after about 6 months and becomes a full on political activist, doing good work in bringing the self-immolating monks to world attention and heavily campaigning against the Vietnam war. She is captured and executed by the Khmer Rouge on a humanitarian misson to Cambodia in 1978.

Johnny descends into brief alcoholism following his forced retirement from dancing after a bilateral hip replacement in the early 80's. However, his redemption occurs when he finds The Lord while lying face down in a gutter in 1986, when a vision of Mary Magdalen steers him in the direction of help and a new life as a baptist minister in Connecticut. He is still alive and living near Hartford and regularly serves soup to the homeless and produces the weekly church newsletter for the folks of the town.

Bloody hell BigStripeyBastard you've been thinking a lot about this. I'm totally impressed.

Give us a Dirty Dancing one, go on....!

I don't know about Sliding Doors but hopefully she'd stay in the time vortex long enough to develop a better English accent. Perhaps the ex keeps rewinding to be permanently shagging to Elton Johns "Bennie and the Jets" until he throws himself through the window as he can't hear that song another time.

(I could be confusing myself with Groundhog Day here)

The main thing i can remember from that movie is big bottles of Grolsch. I never see those bottles anymore........