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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Miramax
Salesrank: 20334
Released: June 29, 1999 |
| Our Price: $11.34 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A glittering Hollywood all-star cast shines in Robert Altman's deliciously sexy comedy hit READY TO WEAR! At the world's hottest fashion show, there's been a murder. Now, everybody's a suspect -- including two guests who end up sharing much more than a hotel room! Add to the fun a hilariously inept TV reporter on the trail of her most shocking interview yet! They're all caught up in the year's biggest see-and-be-seen events -- where steamy scandals and spectacular supermodels turn up the heat in a riotous show of high-fashion hilarity.
Description of Ready to Wear:
Robert Altman's much-anticipated broadside at the world of fashion is a disappointment. The film's crazy-quilt Nashville-like narrative structure and ensemble casting (Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Lauren Bacall, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren) are a thing to behold, but the story's many interlocking pieces lack overall depth and resonating emotion. There is a grand, satiric statement about fashion and society at the end of the film, and there are hints of an aging, nostalgic filmmaker's skepticism about our postmodern world of short-lived attachments and meanings. But watching this film is a long, long uphill climb, with a lot of thin air to endure before arriving at a destination. --Tom Keogh
Ready to Wear Reviews:
IT'S FUN 
2009-10-28 - THIS CAN NOT BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. IT IS JUST A FUN MOVIE. FRIENDS OF MINE WANTED TO SEE CHER IN IT, SHE HAD AT MOST A 15 SECOND CAMEO.
I ENJOYED THE CLOSING SONG. IT'S VERY...VERY...?
all wrapped up in ribbons and ready to forget 
2009-09-26 - One common complaint of this film is that it has no focus and we wind up with something that is blurry even if it is trying to take a snapshot of something. It is like a collage of plots, stories, and fashion into one big piece of artwork. This is not to say that it can't be entertaining of course. People's tastes do differ. Not everybody likes modern art. Some people like something more traditional. I guess the highlight of the film would be the end sequence where you get to see the bevy of models that, like the story, has no clothes. And if you like looking at big bellies of a pregnant woman than this may be a film for you. It is what is on the inside that counts after all, not the superficial outside.
Always Good 
2009-08-11 - What a wonderfully funny and nearly ageless movie! I have had the DVD for 7 years and have returned to it time and time again. Its still fresh and lively. Robert Altman outdid himself. Bravo!
altman at his most loveable
2009-05-25 - there's very little NOT to like about this classic altman-poke at paris fashionistas. i haven't seen this movie in years but i remember when it came out i had already developed a liking for altman's work and this really sealed the deal.
it is hip fast, cheeky, sly, and yet, never mean!!.....there's a whole roster of wonks and you end up loving them all for all their frailty, pompous-egotism, delusion, and angst-driven antics. it is the fabric within the fabric that makes us laugh>
and makes me want to see it again almost 15 years later.
"Nashville" on the other side of the Atlantic
2009-01-01 - Nashville and this movie (Pret a Porter, in itself something of a pun) are my two favorite Altman movies. Both feature a large cast of characters, no plot worth mentioning, curious "now you see me, now you don't" characters (here the amazing character played by Marcello Mastroianni), dazzling costumes (a bit higher-class in this movie than in the home of the Grand Ole Opry, obviously ;-), constant cuts back and forth between various (mostly unconnected) threads, all at an easy pace and with tongue firmly in cheek. It is visually alluring while poking gentle fun at everything that comes within its scope, from the omnipresent dog poop on Parisian sidewalks to grand hotels, journalists, editors, purchasers, and, of course, fashion designers. Sophia Loren shows that one of the most beautiful women in the world can remain gorgeous long past the time most of us have stopped looking in the mirror; Julia Roberts, arriving in a wine stained "greatest mom" T-shirt, gives a superb performance as a classy alcoholic; Marcello Mastroianni looks suitably sinister, worried, sweet, and down-home in turn, lurking around every corner and wielding a mean handheld sewing machine ;-), and Kim Basinger is the TV anchor we all love to hate, but with a difference... Many other stars put in appearances, including a number of models and designers starring as themselves.
No, it's not really deep -- but who thought that Nashville was deep and why should every movie be deep? It is a whirlwind of impressions, colors, fashions, and people, all lovingly mixed for your entertainment. Pure Altman and a great movie!
