Trailer
Plot summary
Cathy Palmer is an American housewife who writes a story in the Rebecca Ryan series for a contest and wins a trip to Paris. Her husband Kevin tells her to decline, but she travels alone. While she is sightseeing, a thief takes her purse; as she chases him, a motorist hits her. She wakes in a hospital with no memory and takes herself to be Rebecca Ryan, the detective. She leaves the hospital and keeps up that identity, then meets Alan McMann, who writes the Rebecca Ryan novels and mistakes her for the clerical assistant he sent for.
Cast
- Yassan Khanas Train Passenger #2
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about American Dreamer (1984)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- JoBeth Williams got the lead only after the project had been envisioned for Goldie Hawn, then offered around to Dolly Parton, Jill Clayburgh, and Mary Steenburgen; Williams herself turned down a supporting role in Robert Redford's The Natural to take it instead.
- Director Rick Rosenthal later said American Dreamer tested as Warner Brothers' highest-testing movie in eight years, but the studio could not figure out how to market it and gave it a poster he compared to a 1970s tax-shelter film.
