Julia Roberts

2022 - 12 - 26

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Julia Roberts' rom-coms ranked, according to critics (INSIDER)

Julia Roberts is best known for her timeless rom-coms including "Pretty Woman," "Notting Hill" and "My Best Friend's Wedding."

In the rom-com classic, Roberts plays a famous actress who begins a romance with a London bookseller (Hugh Grant) when she walks into his store. Summary: Julia Roberts also starred in the Woody Allen musical "Everyone Says I Love You." Summary: The most critically-praised rom-com in Julia Roberts' career is of course "Notting Hill." Summary: "Duplicity" follows two former government operatives (Julia Roberts and Clive Owen) who get involved in a passionate affair while working for rival companies. Summary: In the 1990 comedy "Pretty Woman," Roberts plays a prostitute whose life is changed when she meets a wealthy businessman who needs a fake girlfriend. Roberts plays Von, a beautiful woman who D.J.'s father Joe (Allen) pursues romantically while in Europe. After being dumped by his girlfriend, arrogant businessman Edward (Richard Gere) has an unexpected encounter with Vivian (Roberts) and thus pays her to be his fake girlfriend for a few business deals. Summary: In "Larry Crowne," Tom Hanks plays the titular character, a newly unemployed man who enrolls in college to figure out what next to do with his life. In the movie, she and George Clooney play a divorced pair who hate each other but must work together to stop their young daughter (Kaitlyn Dever) from getting married and making the same mistake they made. She sits next to a man called Holden Wilson (Bradley Cooper) on the plane and the pair get to know each other. Kiki (Roberts) has to help her boss Gwen (Zeta-Jones) get through her last public appearance with her estranged husband Eddie (Cusack). Despite working for rival newspapers, they decide to work together to break a conspiracy behind the crash and form a connection.

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Julia Roberts made $2.8 million a minute for a cameo movie role (UNILAD)

Her extended cameo role in Valentine's Day (2010) alongside Bradley Cooper is perhaps one of the most memorable scenes in modern rom com history - but she was ...

Entertaining for what it is, but for little more." [Film & TV](/film-and-tv), [Film and TV](/film-and-tv), [Celebrity](/celebrity) [Julia Roberts says Martin Luther King Jr paid for her birth](/film-and-tv/julia-roberts-martin-luther-king-jr-20221030) [Man goes to extreme lengths to prove once and for all that the movie Taken is a lie](/film-and-tv/taken-movie-man-prove-lie-095145-20221222) [Nick Nolte says that 'everyone knows' Julia Roberts is 'not a nice person'](/celebrity/nick-nolte-julia-roberts-not-nice-person-20221113) [Brooke Shields says a movie like The Blue Lagoon with underage nudity could never be made again](/film-and-tv/brooke-shields-blue-lagoon-nudity-413429-20221223) [Roberts](https://www.unilad.com/celebrity/julia-roberts-gives-reason-she-hasnt-been-in-major-romcom-for-years-20220419), who played the role of Captain Kate Hazeltine, only appears in the film for roughly six minutes, yet that was enough for her to earn a reported $8,333 per second of on-screen time or $11,952 per word upfront, according to [Vulture](https://www.vulture.com/2010/02/julia_roberts_valentines_day.html). However, not everyone thought it was so bad, with one person writing: "Works where so many romantic comedies in general fail because it doesn't offer some idealised look at love, but shows the power of it - warts and all - from a variety of perspectives." However, Roberts also signed a deal which would enable her to take in three percent of the film's total gross, which brings her total earnings up to a reported $14 million, according to [Bradley Cooper](https://www.unilad.com/film-and-tv/bradley-cooper-unrecognisable-new-netflix-role-20220530) is perhaps one of the most memorable scenes in modern rom com history - but she was certainly well paid for it.

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