Ready to Wear | 
| Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Sophia Loren, Julia Roberts, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-pierre Cassel, Kim Basinger
Studio: Miramax
Category: DVD
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 44616
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.20:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 133 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0788815288
UPC: 717951002143
EAN: 9780788815287
ASIN: B00000IQCA
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1994
Release Date: June 29, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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
Description
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 19 more reviews...
 altman at his most loveable May 25, 2009
J. C. Colgin (san diego, ca usa)
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 January 1, 2009
B. Moret (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
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!
 Ready To Wear November 26, 2007
PEGGY
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
WORST 133 MINUTES I'VE SPENT LATELY. IT HAD SUBTITLES, THAT DIDN'T STAY UP LONG ENOUGH, AND JUST A STUPIT MOVIE OVERALL. COMPANY DELIVERED DVD IN RECORD TIME. THAT'S THE ONLY GOOD THING I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THIS PRODUCT.
2and half stars are you KIDDING?? BEAUTIFUL, FUNNY, GLAMOROUS MOVIE W/SOPHIA LOREN AND KIM BASINGER + LOTSA SUPERMODELS October 14, 2007
stedy (NorthEast)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Ok, Why would anyone even watch a movie about a murder taking place in a FASHION SHOW IN PARIS if they consider glamour and beauty not to be a point in and of itself.
Aside from visual feasts the movie depicts this lifestyle in a honest way, kinda like how Office Space depicts the office life. One scene is when these two ladies who are staying next to each other talk to each other politely as they walk each other to their hotel rooms. When they arrive at their doors they bid their farewells and then one goes to the left and the other to the right, and as they both turn the doorknobs they both discover that the doors are locked. AWKWARD! well the awkwardness is depicted beautifully as they both utter polite laughts he he... if you are incapable of appreciating that then you're right, you might be too shallow to enjoy this movie! If you can get into the depths of things that appear 'not to matter' and at the same time consider beauty and glamour a point in and of itself (it sounds contradictory but it isn't) then you will LOVE THIS! Here are more reasons to get this movie:
-Kim Basinger has a pretty big role as this innocent reporter "live in Paris" and is stunning and funny
-Sophia Loren who I've never thought to be all THAT is in this and has a fair share of camera time, and BOY did I just change my mind! It seems she is gorgeous now that she's old but I never really saw it when she was young. Kim Basinger admires her jewelry :-).
-Cameo by Cher (she gets interviewed)
-Jean Paul Gaultier is in it (he gets interviewed)
-There are scenes of Paris shopping in it
-There is are cute dogs (although in the first scene, S. Loren shakes her dog a little but I'll just think she makes up for it)
-I could go on and on!!! If you are attracted to the title in the first place, WHY WOULDN'T you like this movie?? O! Just thought of something:
-HELENA CHRISTIANSON is in it and she has a line, Christy Turlington is in it, more...!!!
 non-stop hoot May 26, 2007
theatre buff (Sarasota, Florida)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Watching this movie is an enjoyable and non-stop "hoot" (if that term is still used). It seems that everyone in Hollywood wanted a cameo appearance in this Robert Altman film, perhaps because it was filmed in Paris. It is true that a critic may find the plot senseless and incomplete, but I doubt very much if the filmakers intended to present a complete and thorough story. The intent was clearly a parady spoof of the Paris fashion industry and all of its multi-faced participants. In this regard READY TO WEAR is an outstanding success.
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