Editing Pretty Woman (section)

== Reception ==

=== Box office === 
In its opening weekend, the film was at [[List of 1990 box office number-one films in the United States|number one at the US box office]], grossing {{US$|11280591 |long=no}} and averaging {{US$|8513|long=no}} per theater.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-26-ca-277-story.html|title=SHORT TAKES : 'Pretty Woman' Finishes First Weekend With a Happy Ending|website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=March 26, 1990 }}</ref><ref name="boxmojoweek">{{cite news|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=prettywoman.htm|title=Pretty Woman (1990)—Weekend Box Office|work=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=September 29, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090930221910/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=prettywoman.htm|archive-date=September 30, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> Despite dropping to number two in its second weekend, it grossed more with {{US$|12471670|long=no}}.<ref name="boxmojoweek" /> It returned to number one at the US box office in its sixth weekend and was number one for three weeks. It was in the Top 10 movies in the US for 16 weeks.<ref name="boxmojoweek" /> In Australia, it was [[List of 1990 box office number-one films in Australia|number one]] for 12 weeks and was [[List of 1990 box office number-one films in the United Kingdom|number one]] for nine consecutive weeks in the UK. {{as of|2009|9|29|alt=As of September 29, 2009}}, it has grossed {{US$|178406268|long=no}} in the United States and {{US$|285000000|long=no}} in other countries for a total worldwide gross of {{US$|463406268}}.<ref name="boxmojo">{{cite news |url= https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=prettywoman.htm |title= Pretty Woman (1990) |work= Box Office Mojo |access-date= September 29, 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120501100849/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=prettywoman.htm |archive-date= May 1, 2012 |url-status= live}}</ref> It was the fourth highest-grossing film of the year in the United States and Canada<ref name="boxofficemojo">{{cite news |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1990&p=.htm |title=1990 Yearly Box Office Results |work=Box Office Mojo |access-date=September 29, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061206182952/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1990&p=.htm |archive-date=December 6, 2006 |url-status=live}}</ref> and the third highest-grossing worldwide.<ref name="boxmojowide">{{cite news |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1990&p=.htm |title=1990 Yearly Box Office Results |work=Box Office Mojo |access-date=September 29, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426000919/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1990&p=.htm |archive-date=April 26, 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> The film was [[Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Disney]]'s highest-grossing film ever, surpassing ''[[Three Men and a Baby]]''. It was also Disney's highest-grossing [[MPAA rating system|R-rated]] release until ''[[Deadpool & Wolverine]]'' surpassed it in 2024.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=January 10, 1994|page=24|first=Don|last=Groves|title=Japan ends year with 'Cliffhanger'}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=September 3, 1990|page=4|title='Pretty Woman' now top Disney grosser}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Top Lifetime Grosses by MPA Rating |website=Box Office Mojo |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/domestic/mpaa.htm?page=R&p=.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820163450/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/domestic/mpaa.htm?page=R&p=.htm |archive-date=August 20, 2016 |access-date=July 4, 2016}}</ref> It is the fourth-highest grossing [[romantic comedy]] film to date.<ref>{{cite web |date=July 21, 2022 |title="The 15 highest-grossing rom-coms of all time |url=https://ew.com/gallery/highest-grossing-rom-coms/#242491 |access-date=2 November 2024 |website=EW.com}}</ref>

=== Critical response {{anchor|Critics}} ===
''Pretty Woman'' received mixed reviews from critics, with positive reviews praising the stars' chemistry and the dialogue.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Semigran |first=Aly |date=March 23, 2015 |title=The 25 Most Iconic Things About 'Pretty Woman' |url=https://www.vh1.com/news/48dqma/pretty-woman-25th-anniversary |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240625162759/https://www.vh1.com/news/48dqma/pretty-woman-25th-anniversary |archive-date=June 25, 2024 |access-date=June 25, 2024 |work=[[VH1]] |quote=When it arrived in theaters back in 1990, the film opened to mixed reviews}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Burke |first=Dana |date=December 17, 2019 |title=Movies turning 30 in 2020 |url=https://www.chron.com/culture/main/slideshow/Movies-turning-20-in-2020-198712.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240625162923/https://www.chron.com/culture/main/slideshow/Movies-turning-20-in-2020-198712.php |archive-date=June 25, 2024 |access-date=June 25, 2024 |work=[[Houston Chronicle]] |quote=Pretty Woman received mixed reviews from critics}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Flockhart |first=Gary |date=February 15, 2023 |title=Pretty Woman: The Musical to visit Edinburgh Playhouse on UK tour - how to get tickets |url=https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/pretty-woman-the-musical-to-visit-edinburgh-playhouse-on-uk-tour-how-to-get-tickets-4027437 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240625163328/https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/pretty-woman-the-musical-to-visit-edinburgh-playhouse-on-uk-tour-how-to-get-tickets-4027437 |archive-date=June 25, 2024 |access-date=June 25, 2024 |work=[[Edinburgh Evening News]] |quote=The film received mixed reviews on its release}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Bukszpan |first=Daniel |date=September 10, 2010 |title=The 15 Most Profitable Movies of All Time |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2010/09/10/The-15-Most-Profitable-Movies-of-All-Time.html |access-date=August 9, 2024 |work=[[CNBC]] |quote=The movie was not exactly well received by critics}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Pretty Woman |date=9 February 2010 |url=https://www.timeout.com/movies/pretty-woman |access-date=November 2, 2024 |website=Time Out Magazine}}</ref> On review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]] the film holds an approval rating of 65% based on 77 reviews, with an average rating of 6.0/10. The website's critical consensus states, "''Pretty Woman'' may be a yuppie fantasy, but the film's slick comedy, soundtrack, and casting can overcome misgivings."<ref>{{cite web |url= https://rottentomatoes.com/m/pretty_woman/ |title= Pretty Woman |work= [[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date= November 20, 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130102221755/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pretty_woman/ |archive-date= January 2, 2013 |url-status= live}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a weighted average score of 51 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews."<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.metacritic.com/movie/pretty-woman |title= Pretty Woman Reviews |work= [[Metacritic]] |access-date= September 29, 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110416085642/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/pretty-woman |archive-date= April 16, 2011 |url-status= live}}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cinemascore.com|title=Find CinemaScore|format=Type "Pretty Woman" in the search box|publisher=[[CinemaScore]]|access-date=March 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102130540/https://www.cinemascore.com/|archive-date=January 2, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> 

The film's detractors criticized the overuse of the "[[hooker with a heart of gold]]" trope.<ref name="Lorraine" /> Others opined that the film sugarcoats the realities of [[sex work]].<ref name="EW2010" /><ref name="Kenny">{{cite news |last1=Kenny |first1=Glenn |title=Julia Robert's career |url=https://ew.com/article/1994/12/02/julia-roberts-career/ |access-date=2 November 2024 |work=EW.com |date=December 2, 1994}}</ref> [[Gary Giddins]] wrote, "In the insidious ''Pretty Woman'', all women who aren't explicitly identified as tramps are gold-digging wives or snooty shopkeepers. It's the kind of working-class fantasy that wants the men in the audience to identify with a ruthless corporate pirate (Richard Gere) and the woman to identify with a simple but grandhearted streetwalker (Julia Roberts), who, given a chance, could be a lady's lady....The attempted laughs (few succeed) are at her expense."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Giddins |first=Gary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bz-JXShQWlMC |title=Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music and Books |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-0195179514 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Bz-JXShQWlMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA201 201] |access-date=November 2, 2024}}</ref> 

[[Owen Gleiberman]] of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' gave the film a "D," saying it "starts out as a neo-Pygmalion comedy" and becomes a "plastic [[Screwball comedy|screwball]] soap opera", with the "kinds of characters who exist nowhere but in the minds of callowly manipulative Hollywood screenwriters".<ref name="EW1990" /> Gleiberman conceded that with the film's "tough-hooker heroine, it can work as a feminist version of an upscale princess fantasy."<ref name="EW1990" /> He also said it "pretends to be about how love transcends money," but "is really obsessed with status symbols."<ref name="EW1990">{{cite magazine |first=Owen |last=Gleiberman |url=https://ew.com/article/2007/07/26/pretty-woman-2/ |title=Pretty Woman |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=March 23, 1990 |access-date=September 29, 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090427093915/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,316998,00.html |archive-date= April 27, 2009 |url-status= live}}</ref> On the film's twentieth anniversary, Gleiberman wrote another article addressing his original review, saying that while he felt some of his criticisms were valid, he would have given it a "B" today.<ref name="EW2010">{{cite magazine |last=Gleiberman |first=Owen |date=March 24, 2010 |title='Pretty Woman': 20 Years after My Most Infamous Review (Yes, I gave it a D), Here's My Mea Culpa—and Also My Defense |url=https://ew.com/article/2010/03/24/pretty-woman-my-most-infamous-review/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120922161815/http://insidemovies.ew.com/2010/03/24/pretty-woman-my-most-infamous-review/ |archive-date=September 22, 2012 |access-date=July 15, 2011 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}}</ref> 

[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave a positive review, praising how the film is about "a particularly romantic kind of love, the sort you hardly see in the movies these days".<ref name="Ebert">{{Cite web |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=March 23, 1990 |title=Pretty Woman |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pretty-woman-1990 |access-date=November 2, 2024 |website=RogerEbert.com}}</ref> He added it "protects its fragile love story in the midst of cynicism and compromise. The performances are critical for that purpose. Gere plays new notes here; his swagger is gone, and he's more tentative, proper, even shy. Roberts does an interesting thing; she gives her character an irrepressibly bouncy sense of humor and then lets her spend the movie trying to repress it. Actresses who can do that and look great can have whatever they want in Hollywood."<ref name="Ebert" />

''[[The New York Times]]''{{'}} [[Janet Maslin]] wrote: "Despite this quintessentially late 80's outlook, and despite a covetousness and underlying misogyny that bring Mr. Marshall's earlier '[[Overboard (1987 film)|Overboard]]' to mind, 'Pretty Woman' manages to be giddy, lighthearted escapism much of the time. Ms. Roberts, as noted, is a complete knockout, and this performance will make her a major star...Mr. Gere is mildly constrained by the button-down aspects of Edward's character, but he manages to be dapper, amusing, and the perfect foil. Though it has not been that long since he himself was on the other side of the [[American Gigolo|Hollywood gigolo equation]], he conveys a dignity and presence well suited to a soon-to-be-radicalized captain of industry."<ref name=Maslin>{{Cite news |last=Maslin |first=Janet |date=March 23, 2020 |title=Review/Film; High-Rolling Boy Meets Streetwalking Girl |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/23/movies/review-film-high-rolling-boy-meets-streetwalking-girl.html |access-date=November 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231219003019/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/23/movies/review-film-high-rolling-boy-meets-streetwalking-girl.html |archive-date=December 19, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Carina Chocano of ''The New York Times'' said the movie "wasn't a love story, it was a money story. Its logic depended on a disconnect between character and narrative, between image and meaning, between money and value, and that made it not cluelessly traditional but thoroughly postmodern."<ref name=Chocano>{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/magazine/mag-24Riff-t.html?pagewanted=all |title= Thelma, Louise and All the Pretty Women |first= Carina |last= Chocano |work= [[The New York Times]] |date= April 11, 2011 |access-date= February 28, 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170401002608/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/magazine/mag-24Riff-t.html?pagewanted=all |archive-date= April 1, 2017 |url-status= live}}</ref> In a 2019 interview, Roberts expressed uncertainty over whether the film could be made today due to its controversial premise, commenting, "So many things you could poke a hole in, but I don't think it takes away from people being able to enjoy it".<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/15/highly-relatable-julia-roberts-and-lucas-hedges-on-their-family-affair | title='I wish I had her cheeks': Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges on their family affair | newspaper=The Guardian | date=March 15, 2019 | last1=Nicholson | first1=Amy }}</ref><ref name=R29>{{Cite web |last=Cohen |first=Anne |date=March 23, 2020 |title=30 Years Later, "Pretty Woman" Is So Much More Than A Guilty Pleasure |url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/07/203053/pretty-woman-modern-review-julia-roberts-richard-gere |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=[[Refinery29]] |language=en}}</ref><ref name=Tobias>{{Cite news |last=Tobias |first=Scott |date=23 March 2020 |title=Pretty Woman at 30: conservatism, materialism and glowing star power |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/23/pretty-woman-30-conservatism-materialism-glowing-star-power |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200323150231/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/23/pretty-woman-30-conservatism-materialism-glowing-star-power |archive-date=2020-03-23 |access-date=November 2, 2024 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>

=== Accolades === 
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
|-
| [[63rd Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]<ref name="Oscars1991">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1991 |title=The 63rd Academy Awards (1991) Nominees and Winners |access-date=October 20, 2011 |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020005240/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1991 |archive-date=October 20, 2014 }}</ref>
| [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| [[Julia Roberts]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[BMI Film & TV Awards]]
| Film Music Award
| [[James Newton Howard]]
| {{won}}
|-
| Most Performed Song from a Film
| "[[It Must Have Been Love]]" – [[Per Gessle]]
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="4"| [[44th British Academy Film Awards|British Academy Film Awards]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1991/film |title=BAFTA Awards: Film in 1991 |website=[[BAFTA]] |year=1991 |access-date=16 September 2016 |ref={{harvid|BAFTA|1991}} |archive-date=January 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103183518/http://awards.bafta.org/award/1991/film |url-status=live }}</ref>
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| [[Arnon Milchan]], [[Steven Reuther]] and [[Garry Marshall]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|Best Actress in a Leading Role]]
| Julia Roberts
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Screenplay – Original]]
| [[J. F. Lawton]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design]]
| [[Marilyn Vance]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[16th César Awards|César Awards]]<ref>{{Cite web |last= |title=Palmarès César 1991 |url=https://www.allocine.fr/festivals/festival-128/edition-18353051/palmares/ |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=AlloCiné |language=fr}}</ref>
| [[César Award for Best Foreign Film|Best Foreign Film]]
| Garry Marshall
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[David di Donatello|David di Donatello Awards]]
| [[David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress|Best Foreign Actress]]
| Julia Roberts
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="4"| [[48th Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/pretty-woman |title=Pretty Woman – Golden Globes |website=[[HFPA]] |access-date=July 28, 2021 |ref={{harvid|HFPA|1991}} |archive-date=August 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802124258/https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/pretty-woman |url-status=live }}</ref>
| colspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy|Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| Julia Roberts
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy|Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| [[Richard Gere]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture]]
| [[Hector Elizondo]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| colspan="3"| [[Goldene Leinwand|Golden Screen Awards]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Jupiter Award (film award)#14th Jupiter Award / 1991|Jupiter Awards]]
| Best International Actress
| rowspan="2"| Julia Roberts
| {{won}}
|-
| [[1991 Kids' Choice Awards|Kids' Choice Awards]]<ref>{{Cite news |id={{ProQuest|272573108}} |date=April 23, 1991 |title=Kids choose favorites in entertainment, sports |work=[[Orange County Register]] |page=F04}}</ref>
| Favorite Movie Actress
| {{won}}
|-
| [[17th People's Choice Awards|People's Choice Awards]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=1991 Awards |url=http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/awards/nominees/index.jsp?year=1991 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160330232841/http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/awards/nominees/index.jsp?year=1991 |archive-date=2016-03-30 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=People's Choice Awards}}</ref>
| colspan="2"| Favorite Comedy Motion Picture
| {{won}}
|-
| [[43rd Writers Guild of America Awards|Writers Guild of America Awards]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 |title=Awards Winners |date= |work=wga.org |publisher=Writers Guild of America |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20121205095022/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 |archive-date=2012-12-05 |access-date=2010-06-06}}</ref>
| [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen]]
| J. F. Lawton
| {{nom}}
|}

'''[[American Film Institute]]''' lists:
* [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions]]  – #21<ref>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years…100 Passions |url=https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-passions/ |website=American Film Institute |access-date=13 April 2023}}</ref>