Born Yesterday (1993)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Why so much hype?

Such a frustrating disappointment

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

The rude, selfish and arrogant businessman Harry Brock (John Goodman) travels to Washington with his mistress Billie Dawn (Melanie Griffith), his adviser Ed Devery (Edward Herrmann) and his assistant JJ (Max Perlich) to have business meetings with senators. Billie is a former showgirl from Las Vegas and does not have culture, embarrassing Harry in the social events. He hires the journalist Paul Verrall (Don Johnson) to teach Billie that is an intelligent woman and soon she does not accept the treatment spent by Harry toward her. Further, Billie and Paul disclose dirty businesses of Harry and fall in love with each other. "Born Yesterday" is a remake of the 1950 film with a storyline inspired in "Pygmalion" (1938) and "Educating Rita" (1983). The romance is entertaining and funny and the gorgeous Melanie Griffith shows a great chemistry with her husband Don Johnson. John Goodman completes the cast with great performance. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "O Renascer de Uma Mulher" ("The Rebirth of a Woman")

Basically this is a watchable enough movie that however as a comedy is too lacking in humor and it suffers from some poor character treatment.It's by no means an horrible movie but it's one of those movies that make you wonder why it was made in the first place. The movie as a whole makes a pointless and redundant impression, especially when considering that this is a remake as well, of a 1950, multiple Oscar nominated, movie.It's not a comedy with over-the-top humor or characters are comical situations. Instead its humor is more subtle with as a result that this movie doesn't provide one big laugh. The humor lacks some real creativity, even though the actors try really hard to make the humor still work.Without the fine actors the movie really would had been a lesser one. John Goodman, Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson and Fred Dalton Thompson are all fine actors. They still give the movie some flair and joy. However their characters don't really work out as good as they could had been.Griffith's and Johnson's roles are too blank and boring. Almost as if they were holding back. John Goodman's character is a hard one to understand. It's unclear whether the movie makers wanted to make him look sympathetic or like a ruthless hard corrupt business man. You don't know if you're supposed to like or hate him, which also does provide the movie with some uneven moments. Some serious poor character treatment if you ask me.But despite all its flaws, this movie still remains a perfectly watchable one. After all it's not a movie that will bore you to death or will make you cringe. However it's also a movie that you can easily do without seeing it.5/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

I did not see the original 1950 version of 'Born Yesterday', so I cannot compare it to this one directly. However popular critical consensus is that this remake is clearly inferior. This one has John Goodman as the oversize, shady businessman who has taken dumb blonde, Melanie Griffith, Las Vegas showgirl, as his companion. In Washington for 'business', he gets embarrassed by her, so hires a professor, played by Don Johnson, for $500 a day to help her seem smart. Things start to go off target when she gets genuinely interested in learning.SPOILERS follow, quit reading. I said ... QUIT READING!!He is bribing congressmen to keep a military base open so his planned real estate project won't tank. In the process he has been putting each of his individual companies in her name so he won't risk losing everything. She just signs where she is told, doesn't know what is going on. But when she starts to figure things out, and what a louse he is, decided to marry her tutor, take true possession of her companies, and plans to give them back, one per year. Nothing groundbreaking here, just a nice feeling that the bad guy gets his comeuppance. The title comes from one of her lines near the end, "What do you think, I was born yesterday??"

Born Yesterday (1950) is one of funniest films ever made. Thisversion has Melanie Griffith attempting the impossible,trying torecreate the role that won Judy Holiday a best actress Oscar. Although Griffith tries hard, she is no match for Holiday, and DonJohnson is certainly no substitute for William Holden. The only oneof the cast who comes close to the original, is John Goodman. For anybody that doesn't know the story outline, Harry Block,(JohnGoodman ) a crooked junk tycoon hires a journalist Paul Verrall(Don Johnson ) to teach his girlfriend Billie Dawn, some socialskills, as she is unused the high society life of the Washingtonelite. In a choice between the two, watch the original.