While the Roy Orbison song of the same name catapulted the film to the top, this Garry Marshall superhit also marked the breakthrough of Hollywood's most iconic modern day leading lady, a certain Ms Julia Roberts.

Roberts played a streetwalker with unbelievable panache, breaking all the rules and falling in love with a client, the staid and hard-to-ruffle Richard Gere.

A popcorn romp in a class of its own.

[After settling on $3,000]
Vivian: 'I would have stayed for two thousand.'
Edward: 'I would have paid four.'