Tema: Film
Tip: Plakat

48 x 68 cm
2 x presavijen
movie poster, AFFICHE de FILM

Who`s That Girl is a 1987 American screwball comedy film directed by James Foley and written by Andrew Smith and Ken Finkleman. It stars Madonna and Griffin Dunne, and depicts the story of a street-smart girl who is falsely accused of murdering her boyfriend and is sent to jail. After getting released, she meets a man, who is supposed to make sure she gets on her bus back to Philadelphia, and convinces him to help her catch those responsible for her confinement. While searching for the embezzler, they fall in love with each other.

After the failure of her 1986 film Shanghai Surprise, Madonna decided to sign up for another comedy film titled Slammer, which was later renamed Who`s That Girl. However, she had to convince both Warner Bros. and the producers of the film that she was ready for the project. Madonna enlisted her friend James Foley to direct the film. Shooting began in New York in October 1986, and continued until March 1987. Production was halted during December due to snowfall in New York. Madonna utilized the time to work on her next tour and the soundtrack of the film.

The film was released on August 7, 1987, and was a box office bomb, grossing only $2.5 million in its first week, with its final domestic total being about $7.3 million on a budget between $17 million and $20 million. Critics were highly disappointed with the film, and Foley`s direction. Madonna`s accompanying Who`s That Girl World Tour went on to be a critical and commercial success, grossing a total of US$25 million, and playing in front of audiences totaling 1.5 million people. The soundtrack also enjoyed commercial success, with the title track becoming Madonna`s sixth number one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 record chart.

Nikki Finn is a carefree young woman who usually wears a leather jacket and skirt, sports fire-red lips and a platinum bob, and speaks in a high-pitched voice; she`s also resourceful and intelligent. One day her boyfriend Johnny sees two men stealing money out of a trust fund and takes a picture of this theft. He puts the pictures in a safe deposit box and gives Nikki the key for safekeeping. The thieves catch and murder Johnny and frame Nikki by dumping his body into the trunk of her car, and she`s sentenced to seven years in prison.

After four years, tax attorney Loudon Trott (Griffin Dunne) is getting married to the daughter of one of the richest men in New York, Simon Worthington. Loudon`s bride Wendy Worthington (Haviland Morris) is a selfish woman who is more consumed in her wedding plans than in her fiancé`s well-being. Loudon, on the other hand, has many duties entrusted to him by his boss--and future father-in-law--Mr. Worthington (John McMartin): First he must pick up a cougar for an exotic-animal activist Montgomery Bell (John Mills), then he must pick up Nikki, and lastly he must make sure she catches the next bus to her hometown, Philadelphia.

Meanwhile, Nikki`s determined to catch the actual thieves and expose the truth. After meeting Loudon, Nikki cons him into taking her shopping. After they take a Rolls-Royce into Harlem to buy a gun--and are nearly arrested during a police raid--she tells Loudon her story; believing she`s innocent, he decides to help her. She`s also on the run from a pimp named Raoul (Coati Mundi) and his lackey Benny (Dennis Burkley), the ones who killed Johnny. Only after dangling off a car smashed through the top floor of a parking garage does he tell her the bank and the box number (6111) of her slain boyfriend.

Afterward Nikki vanishes with the cougar, whom she names Murray. Loudon visits Mr. Bell to apologize for losing the animal, then finds that Nikki had delivered Murray and was waiting for Loudon at Mr. Bell`s home; he has created a Brazilian rainforest filled with animals on top of his roof. There Nikki and Loudon--who have become close--express love for each other; Murray also finds a mate. Loudon delivers Nikki to the bus station the next morning, but Nikki brokenheartedly realizes that she must go back to Philadelphia, leaving Loudon, who is about to get married. On the bus she opens an envelope in the security box and finds the photographs that prove that Mr. Worthington is an embezzler and he was the mastermind behind the theft. Nikki gate-crashes the wedding, gets Mr. Worthington arrested, and proclaims her love for Loudon. Nikki and Loudon ride off into the sunset on a bus to Philadelphia, with Murray and his partner chasing after them.