PRETTY WOMAN (1990) **1/2 It's capitalist propaganda masquerading as a fairy tale, pure and simple. If you have cash you can be good-looking, respectable, and responsible. Otherwise you be a Hollywood ho. Julia Roberts is, as usual, utterly unconvincing but evokes the sympathy you would have for a nice neighborhood kid who got cast way over her head in the local high school production of "MacBeth." Richard Gere is very good as the corporate raider guy, slightly sensual and highly intelligent. You have to wonder why he didn't previously think of the rather obvious and superficial truths that catalyze his development into human form towards the middle of the film, but there are enough similar cases in any major city that Gere's myopia can be given the short shrift the script writers give the viewers. There's a really nice Lotus.
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