Prêt-à-Porter

Prêt-à-Porter (1994)

Genres - Comedy  |   Sub-Genres - Satire, Ensemble Film, Media Satire  |   Release Date - Dec 25, 1994 (USA)  |   Run Time - 132 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Mark Deming

This large, sprawling comedy directed by Robert Altman concerns a variety of romantic and personal intrigues that intersect against the backdrop of Paris's annual "Pret-a-Porter" fashion extravaganza. With 31 principal characters and a number of cameos from well known models, designers, actors and actresses, there's far too much going on to describe the film in a limited space, but Julia Roberts and Tim Robbins get stuck in a hotel room together, Danny Aiello wears a dress, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni reignite their old passion (or at least try to), Stephen Rea humiliates a number of female journalists, Kim Basinger often looks dumbfounded, and Lyle Lovett plays a Texan (talk about imaginative casting!). Originally called Pret-a-Porter, this underwent a last-minute title change when the distributor discovered very few Americans understood what the French phrase means, with the English translation taking its place.

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fashion, behind-the-scenes, designer, fashion-designer, fashion-industry, fashion-show, high-fashion, modeling, photography, reporter, slice-of-life