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Plot summary
Nikki Finn is paroled after four years for the murder of her boyfriend Johnny, a crime she did not commit. Johnny had photographed a theft and locked the pictures in a bank safe deposit box, giving Nikki the key; he was killed and his body was left in her car. She wants her name cleared. Loudon Trott is a New York tax attorney getting married to Wendy, the daughter of Simon Worthington, one of the richest men in the city. Simon orders Loudon to collect Nikki from prison and put her on a bus to Philadelphia. She has errands of her own to run first, and detectives are tracking her, hoping she will lead them to the evidence.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Who's That Girl (1987)
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- Madonna was offered the lead role of Nadia Gates opposite Bruce Willis in the Blake Edwards comedy Blind Date but refused it, saying she was supposed to have approval of the director and the leading man and was not told that Bruce Willis had already been hired.
- Madonna initially thought of asking Sean Penn to play the part of Detective Bellson, but Penn was serving a 60-day jail term, having violated the probation he received in 1986 for assaulting a friend of hers.
- In light of the bad publicity surrounding her and Penn and the very public failure of Shanghai Surprise, Madonna had to persuade producers Rosilyn Heller and Bernard Williams, as well as Warner Bros., that she was up for the part.
- The film's title track became Madonna's sixth number one single on the Billboard Hot 100, making her the first artist to accumulate six number-one singles in the 1980s and the first female performer to get that many as a solo act.
- Filming commenced in January 1987 with the scene involving a cougar; during the second take the cougar accidentally escaped from its cage, and filming was paused for a few hours.
