Pretty Woman - a re-watching

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I loved this as a young teen and remember watching it with my mum and thinking it was v romantic. I was talking about watching it with dd1 age 16 - but thinking back on the story I'm beginning to wonder what it will be like to watch a story about a prostitute falling in love with her client as an adult.
Guess it might make for an interesting discussion - though not sure me and my mum ever thought that deeply about it!

Anyone seen it recently?

I thought it was very romantic - until I was mid 30s I honestly thought "It's so nice that he respected her so never slept with her"

My dds both like it in a chick lit sort of way and weren't at all thrown by watching it with me - but they didn't realise there was any sex either until the day I noticed

It's one of those easy to watch, don't think too hard films, if you try to analyse it there are many many holes that would make you mad (like no call to the police about an assault and attempted rape....)

Thanks - we are mid GCSE revision so thought it might be something light to watch at the end of the day. Will let you know what she thinks!

I watched it with my dad as a teenager, hid behind a cushion in the dodgy bits (embarrassed!!) but still one of my favourite films..

I remember coming out of the cinema with a couple of my mates (we were all grad students - so I am a really old gimmer now ), and one of them saying "Wow, isn't Hollywood brilliant at glossy packaging? This film has left me feeling 'yeah, it would be so glamourous to be a streetwalker, and a millionaire who looked like Richard Gere would totally turn out to be my first trick, wouldn't sleep with me till later, and then marry me...'" She absolutely nailed it: it sells a totally misogynistic fantasy in such an amazingly slick and glossy way. Added to which, Julia Roberts is so brilliant she carries just about any film you put her in.

So many films of that period are so dodgy - Working Girl (ditzy blonde has moment of brightness, gets Harrison Ford and shafts the ball-breaking career woman, because we know that all career women are ball-breaking and deserve to be shafted), Fatal Attraction (one of the most offensively anti-women films of all time), etc. The only one that still has me dancing in the aisles is 9 to 5 which is bloody brilliant.