Clyde Kusatsu, Kay Tong Lim, Madonna

Madonna plays an unlikely missionary nurse, Gloria Tatlock, to Sean Penn's bounty hunter, Glendon Wasey, in this romantic adventure helmed by Jim Goddard. It's 1937, and Gloria's searching for opium t...( read more  read more... )o administer to her patients. When she hires Glendon to accompany her on a quest to track down a wayward shipment of the medicine, they find much more than the drugs -- including loads of intrigue, trouble and, despite their differences, love.

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PG-13, 93 min.

Directed by: Jim Goddard

Release Date: August 29, 1986

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DVD Release Date: July 22, 2003

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  • November 12, 2007
    I really don't know where to start... and I really don't know where to end! This balant Indiana Jones/ Romancing the Stone rip-off is one of the most tedious, tiresome, and dull films I've ever seen. I'm pretty sure that's all that really needs to be said.
  • December 4, 2006
    They don't make films like this anymore - and we have to congratulate someone for it, real fast.
  • November 17, 2007
    This movie gets 1 star for Sean Penn and 1 star for Madonna and that's pretty much all it had going for it!
  • April 27, 2009
    it is crap but i love it coz its madonna
  • February 13, 2009
    Okay,okay,YES it was a flop,and kinda boring,but..MADONNA people!! Nuff said.
  • February 1, 2009
    its an adventure with a horrible poster :)
  • January 7, 2009
    she's so bad at acting...come on, lady, do what you're doing best
  • December 11, 2008
    nothanks not my kinda thing
  • June 7, 2008
    sad pathetic and barely watchable:(
  • May 18, 2008
    Had its funny points. But worst Movie Sean or Madonna ever made. I did not really like madonnas character in this... She did look hot with that bright blonde hair and red lipstick but thats about it. Bad BAD DYE JOB ON SEAN PENN. Shame on Jim goddard for casting these parts as he...( read more) did. I did laugh when they were both in the baskets but other then that. It tried to rip off Romancing the Stone and did not succeed. I do not recommend this movie to anyone. I guess thats what I get on renting a movie just because Madonna was in it never rent or go watch a movie just because you like the actors in it and no other reason. Thats the worst reason. I did like the music that was kind of cool at the end of the movie.

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