Garry Marshall
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6.5 Overboard (1987)
6.0 Beaches (1988)
7.0 Pretty Woman (1990)
6.5 Frankie and Johnny (1991)
6.5 The Other Sister (1999)
5.8 Runaway Bride (1999)
6.0 The Princess Diaries (2001)
6.0 Raising Helen (2004)
4.2 The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
6.0 Georgia Rule (2007)
4.5 Valentine's Day (2010)
6.0 New Year's Eve (2011)
4.0 Mothers Day (2016) 		Links:
Garry Marshall (USA, 1934) became famous as the creator of one of the most popular sitcoms of the 1970s: "Happy Days" (1974). He entered cinema with Young Doctors in Love (1982), followed by The Flamingo Kid (1984) and Nothing in Common (1986), written by Rick Podell and Michael Preminger, and starring Tom Hanks and Eva Marie Saint.

Overboard (1987), written by Leslie Dixon, was his first major romantic comedy.

Beaches (1988)

Pretty Woman (1990), written by Jonathan Frederick Lawton, and starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, is a romantic comedy centered on a formula as old as the art of comedy itself.

Edward is a wealthy businessman who has lost his way on the streets of Los Angeles and is driving a car with a manual transmission that he doesn't know how to operate. He asks a young prostitute, Vivian, for directions; she offers to accompany him for a few dollars and soon takes over the driving entirely, as Vivian is instead an excellent driver. Once they arrive at his luxurious hotel, Edward invites her up with him. She tells him her price and is in a hurry to do the job and take the money, but he instead only wants company and pays her for the entire night. He then starts working while she watches TV, but at a certain point, she seduces him and they make love. The next day, he has to go to a business meeting and decides to hire the girl for the entire week he will be at the hotel—not for sex, but because he needs a companion for business meetings. However, the girl is loud and coarse like all prostitutes. It is necessary not only to buy her decent clothes but also to teach her good manners. The rebirth is astonishing: a high-class woman emerges. At the business dinner, she discovers Edward's true nature: he is a ruthless corporate raider who does not hesitate to use dirty tricks to get what he wants, even at the expense of honest people. That evening at the hotel, they talk about it and Edward admits that their professions are similar. He then spends the night playing the piano in the lobby for a handful of strangers until Vivian comes to get him and they make love on the piano. Overcome with remorse, Edward calls off the business plan and thus saves the company he was about to destroy, leaving his lawyer and partner in despair. Instead, he spends his time with the girl, who always lifts his spirits and makes him feel like a better man. His partner realizes it’s because of the girl and tries to lay his hands on her. Edward catches him and fires him.
But the week is now over. Edward and Vivian separate as agreed, even though they have fallen seriously in love. Theirs would be an impossible relationship. Edward is heading to the airport but changes his mind and goes to get Vivian.

Then came Frankie and Johnny (1991), written by Terrence McNally and starring Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer, Exit to Eden (1994), an adaptation of Anne Rice's novel, Dear God (1996), The Other Sister (1999), Runaway Bride (1999), which reunited him with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, The Princess Diaries (2001), which launched the career of Anne Hathaway, Raising Helen (2004), The Princess Diaries 2 - Royal Engagement (2004), and Georgia Rule (2007), starring Jane Fonda.

His career concluded with the "holiday" trilogy: Valentine's Day (2010), New Year's Eve (2011), Mother's Day (2016).

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