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Julia Roberts and Richard Gere reunite for the first time since Pretty Woman in 1999's Runaway Bride. Now on Netflix. | Netflix

Runaway Bride is a romantic comedy film released in 1999, with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, and directed by Garry Marshall, the same team behind the 1990 hit Pretty Woman. From the earliest stages of its production, the film attracted attention because it reunited the beloved trio who had created one of the most iconic romantic comedies of the 1990s. Many fans and journalists at the time referred to Runaway Bride as Pretty Woman 2, seeing it as a kind of spiritual sequel, even though the stor