Netflix subscribers are falling for this film with music as cult as its title and which is currently placed in a good position in the ranking of the most watched works on the platform.
While The World After Us is a hit on the platform, discover another film with Julia Roberts, which is currently 5th in the top most viewed films on Netflix. Released in 1990, it is a modern-day fairy tale, carried by a duo of top actors: Pretty Woman!
The cynical businessman Edward Lewis buys up companies at low prices and sells them sector by sector. One evening, when he is bored to death at a party, he borrows a sports car and drives around the city at full speed, until he gets lost. Parked on Hollywood Boulevard, he meets Vivian, a prostitute who will change his life.
The businessman is played by Richard Gere and the prostitute by Julia Roberts and for the latter, it is this film that will change her life. Because after notable but little-celebrated roles in Mystic Pizza and Gossip of Women, it was Pretty Woman which propelled Roberts as a Hollywood superstar.
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If the first version of the film had to end tragically, the final version of Pretty Woman has everything of a slightly crazy Christmas story with this insensitive man whose life will be turned upside down by contact with a person very different from him. Let’s say it bluntly: the film owes its success above all to the energy deployed by Julia Roberts, who carries away everything in her path!
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Self-employed, Vivian is generous, honest, frank and does not lack common sense, where Edward ultimately turns out to be narrow-minded and disconnected from “real life”, that of people who do not spend $3,000 to pass by. a week with them. It is their contrast that carries the film, which is massively watched on Netflix during this end-of-year period. So why not you ?