A middle-aged businessman pays a much-younger prostitute to be his live-in lover for a week. How did he make such a tasteless exploitation fantasy seem almost wholesome? Well, casting a star with the incandescent beauty and charm of Julia Roberts was undoubtedly a factor. But another factor was casting a co-star, Richard Gere, who behaved as if that beauty and charm meant nothing to him. The original screenplay, written by JF Lawton, was a gloomier and grittier affair entitled 3,, but by the time it had been made over as Pretty Woman — much as its heroine is made over on screen — it had far less swearing and drug use.

A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets Vivian : People put you down enough, you start to believe it. Edward Lewis : I think you are a very bright, very special woman. Vivian : The bad stuff is easier to believe. You ever notice that? Sign In. Play trailer

Manton to use pretty women to help advertise his dreary new car model. He is not succeeding when Manton's daughter, the often-married Mrs. Connie Manton Dezlow Audrey Long , interrupts the business meeting, takes a liking to the handsome young artist, and makes herself his patron.

My mom noticed the check from the art school and asked me about it in front of the family. I told her the truth, they all just laughed and gave me a hard time about it but were not offended or mad or anything so it was cool. Since that time, I have been to two nudist resorts in CA.