Mike is a struggling artist who draws the "Brenda Starr" strip for the papers. When Brenda comes to life in the strip and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, she leaves the strip. To get...
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Brooke Shields | ... | Brenda Starr | |
| Timothy Dalton | ... | Basil St. John | |
| Tony Peck | ... | Mike Randall | |
| Diana Scarwid | ... | Libby 'Lips' Lipscomb | |
| Nestor Serrano | ... | Jose | |
| Jeffrey Tambor | ... | Vladimir | |
| June Gable | ... | Luba | |
| Charles Durning | ... | Editor Francis I. Livright | |
| Kathleen Wilhoite | ... | Reporter Hank O'Hare | |
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John Short | ... | Cub Reporter Pesky Miller |
| Eddie Albert | ... | Police Chief Maloney | |
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Mark von Holstein | ... | Donovan O'Shea, Public Enemy #3 |
| Henry Gibson | ... | Professor Gerhardt Von Kreutzer | |
| Ed Nelson | ... | President Harry S. Truman | |
| Tom Aldredge | ... | The Fake Capt. Borg | |
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Mike is a struggling artist who draws the "Brenda Starr" strip for the papers. When Brenda comes to life in the strip and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, she leaves the strip. To get her back, and keep his job, Mike draws himself into the strip. In her world, Brenda Starr is the Ace Reporter for the New York Flash. She is talented, fearless, smart, and a very snappy dresser. The only competition she has is from the rival paper's top reporter Libby Lipscomb. Brenda heads to the Amazon jungle to find a scientist with a secret formula which will create cheap and powerful gas from ordinary water. Written by Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
15 April 1992 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Brenda Starr - Stjärnreportern See more »Edit
Box Office
Budget:
$16,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$30,035, 19 April 1992Gross USA:
$67,878Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$67,878Company Credits
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Mike Randall: Brenda, I just draw you. I didn't create you, a woman did.
Brenda Starr: Well, tell her I don't mind the wardrobe. Of course, logically I couldn't afford it on what I earn. But I understand the public expects me to look chic, and I wouldn't want to let them down!
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Written by Kashif, Brian Alexander Morgan (as Brian Morgan) & Shelley Scruggs
Published by Music Corp. of America (BMI)
Kashif Music (BMI)
New Music Group, Inc. (BMI)
Produced by Kashif, Brian Alexander Morgan (as Brian Morgan) & Shelley Scruggs for
The New Music Group, Inc.
Vocal Performance by Yogi Lee
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Although shot in 1986 and released in Europe in 1989, the movie, due to legal disputes regarding the American distribution and television rights, was not released in American theaters until 1992. See more »Quotes
Brenda Starr: I'm having a terrible problem with some of those purses you're having me wear. They're just too small! I have to use teeny-weeny notebooks so they'll fit. Half the time I have the memorize what people say. I want my stories accurate!Mike Randall: Brenda, I just draw you. I didn't create you, a woman did.
Brenda Starr: Well, tell her I don't mind the wardrobe. Of course, logically I couldn't afford it on what I earn. But I understand the public expects me to look chic, and I wouldn't want to let them down!
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Fiesta With My LoveWritten by Kashif, Brian Alexander Morgan (as Brian Morgan) & Shelley Scruggs
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She would cash in on her looks. Her acting ability has finally reared its head with Suddenly Susan, but prior to her stint on TV Brooke Shields did a number of lack luster appearances films that were shot as A-quality pictures, but suffered from her poor acting ability.
"Brenda Starr" shows a turning point in Brooke's acting career, largely because it seemed as though she actually projected herself into the Brenda Starr character, verse reciting lines in her previous roles.
Even so the film is poorly directed, and veterans like Dalton and Scarwid cannot prop up a film that has a definate lack of vision. In fact the best sequences of the entire film are in Act I; from Shields braving a ledge to get an interview with an Irish immigrant gangster, to her welcome home to the office by the Brenda Starr comic strip's supporting characters.
The film was given a kind of feminine sense of adventure, which I believe detracts from what could've been a far more entertaining film; had the director just followed his personal instincts and created a good adventure film. The high points are seeing Brooke herself in very alluring fashions of the late forties. Beyond that there's not much here. Brooke looks the part, but couldn't act it ... at least not then.