by Tierney Bricker | Tue., Jul. 30, 2019 3:00 AM
It had been the film ten years when you look at the making—in more ways than one.
Nine years after Pretty girl made Julia Roberts a star and switched Richard Gere into certainly one of Hollywood’s many sought-after leading men, the iconic on-screen set finally reunited in Runaway Bride.
Released on July 30, 1999, Roberts and Gere yet again teamed up due to their Pretty Woman manager Garry Marshall, whom passed on in 2016, for the romantic-comedy about a tiny city girl therefore afraid of dedication that she actually is dashed through the altar 3 x while the jaded divorced magazine columnist determined to see her run for the time that is fourth. Naturally, they fall in love.
Fans sprinted to your movie movie theater to begin to see the set’s chemistry, making Runaway Bride, which was indeed in the works for over 10 years with many other a-listers connected to star sooner or later, a more impressive blockbuster hit than Pretty girl, that has been released in 1990.
But simply as it made more income than Pretty girl does not mean it absolutely was more productive, as Runaway Bride didn’t captivate experts (making merely a 46 % fresh on bad Tomatoes) as well as had certainly one of its movie stars later on admitting it simply don’t capture the secret of the previous movie. (Plus, one of Roberts’ other iconic rom-coms—Notting Hill—came out simply weeks before.)