Stars: Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger, Sophia Loren, Danny Aiello, Anouk Aimee, Lauren Bacall, Harry Belafonte, Cher, Francois Cluzet, Teri Garr, Richard E. Grant, Sally Kellerman, Marcello Mastroianni, Stephen Rea, Jean Rochefort, Lili Taylor, Forest Whitaker, Michel Blanc, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Lyle Lovett, Naomi Campbell, Sally Kellerman, Lauren Bacall, Chiara Mastroianni, Richard E. Grant, Sally Kellerman, Teri Garr, Helena Christensen, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Elsa Klensch, Christian Lacroix, Issey Miyake, Thierry Mugler, Sonia Rykiel, Christy Turlington, Tracey Ullman

Director: Robert Altman

Summary: A murder rocks the hottest fashion show of the year...

Robert Altman delivers another sprawling satire with READY TO WEAR, this time focusing his lens on the tightly knit, pretentious fashion industry. After a popular fashion leader dies during the most important industry gathering of the year in Paris, the question that it might have been murder creates chaos amongst the gathered participants and viewers. Affected parties include his widow, who uses this opportunity to rekindle an old relationship; the dead man's mistress, a designer who is forced to sell out to a Texas boot tycoon; three magazine editors, who all have their eyes on the same photographer; two American reporters whose affair keeps them in bed throughout the gathering; and two aging Roman lovers who are reuniting after many years. The film's many revolving characters and stories collide at the climax, an all-nude fashion show that stuns and excites the crowd. Altman's comedy boasts one of his most star-studded casts, and actors who are playing fictional characters intermingle with popular designers and models who play themselves. This fresh mixing of fiction and reality recalls the director's thrilling THE PLAYER, and the multi-layered story, the masterful NASHVILLE. Standout performances include the late Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Tim Robbins, Julia Roberts, Tracey Ullman, and a hysterical Kim Basinger.

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Robert Altman's much-anticipated broadside at the world of fashion, Pret A Porteris 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 scepticism about our post-modern 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, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	1994
Release Date:	June 15, 2006
Runtime:	127 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	B E D 888249
Keywords:	Comedy, General, Porter, Pret
Genre:	Comedy