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20% Tomatometer 10 Reviews. 15% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings. Glendon Wasey (Sean Penn) is a sleazy, down-on-his-luck con man struggling to sell glow-in-the-dark neckties in Shanghai. When he...
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Aug 29, 1986 · Shanghai Surprise: Directed by Jim Goddard. With Sean Penn, Madonna, Paul Freeman, Richard Griffiths. Shanghai, 1938: A missionary woman hires a fortune hunter to help her find 1100 lbs. opium lost, as wounded need the morphine. Adventure and romance follows.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Crime
- Jim Goddard
- 1986-08-29
Shanghai Surprise is a 1986 adventure comedy film directed by Jim Goddard and starring then-newlyweds Sean Penn and Madonna. The screenplay was adapted by John Kohn and Robert Bentley from Tony Kenrick's 1978 novel Faraday's Flowers.
SHANGHAI SURPRISE certainly is a surprise because it features Sean Penn, one of the greatest actors of the past thirty-years, in such a bad performance that one really needs to consider it one of the worst performances by any great actor in the history of cinema.
Shanghai Surprise Review. 1930's Shanghai. Gloria Tatlock (Madonna) is a nurse looking for a stash of opium to administer to her patients. Glendon Wasey (Sean Penn) is a crook...
Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. Fate sets them on a hectic, exotic, and even romantic quest for stolen drugs.
