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The picture opens in 1937, when Japanese invaders were beginning their long occupation of Shanghai. Narcotics smuggler Walter Faraday (Paul Freeman) tries to flee the city with associate Willie Tuttle (Richard Griffiths of The History Boys and the Harry Potter series) and five crates of opium, but is cut down by corrupt Chinese soldiers led by sadistic Mei Gan (Kay Tong Lim), whose hands are blown clean off courtesy Faraday's booby trapped money belt, a "Shanghai Surprise."

A year later "glow-in-the-dark tie king" Glendon Wasey (Penn), a down-on-his-luck wino whom more than one critic likened to Dustin Hoffman's "Ratso" Rizzo, is reluctantly persuaded by American missionary nurse Gloria Tatlock (Madonna) to help the mission locate the missing opium so they can buy much-needed medicine. The two soon get in way over their heads, becoming involved with a Japanese black-marketeer and baseball fanatic, Joe Go (played with wiseguy gusto by Clyde Kusatsu) and the mysterious China Doll (Sonserai Lee), a beautiful eccentric with connections to some lost jewels as well as the opium.

Just as highly-regarded "classic" films sometimes don't live up to their lofty reputations, occasionally a notorious stinker will fail to live down to its low esteem. Such is the case with Shanghai Surprise (1986), the famous flop starring Madonna and Sean Penn, at the time husband and wife and under the microscopic gaze of the paparazzi and poison pen of the tabloids.

Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Region: Region 1