An 80’s update on the classic fairy tale “Cinder-fucking-rella”, Pretty Woman is the story of Vivian (Julia Roberts) — a charming but down-on-her-luck sex worker, and Edward (Richard Gere) — a handsome but emotionally-stunted corporate raider, who meet and form an unlikely business partnership that takes Vivian from the Red-light district in Hollywood to the high-class playground of the super-rich: Beverly Hills. Over the course of one week, the pair negotiate and navigate their relationship and, in the end, they are both changed forever.
1990, written by JF Lawton, directed by Garry Marshall
Sources include:
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko The shopgirl who looks like former Ukraine President Yulia Tymoshenko
VanityFair: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/03/pretty-woman-original-ending
Gradesaver: https://www.gradesaver.com/pretty-woman/study-guide/does-pretty-woman-misrepresent-sex-work
NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/23/movies/review-film-high-rolling-boy-meets-streetwalking-girl.html
And the hooker is played by Julia Roberts, who is so enchantingly beautiful, so funny, so natural and such an absolute delight that it is hard to hold anything against the movie. (Janet Maslin, NYT 1990)
Savings Org: https://www.saving.org/inflation/inflation.php?amount=3,000&year=1980
$3000 is roughly $10k today
AV Club: https://film.avclub.com/in-1990-pretty-woman-changed-romantic-comedies-forever-1832809447
