Who's That Girl

Nikki Finn (Madonna) is a carefree young woman who usually wears a leather jacket and skirt, sports fire-red lips and a platinum bubble cut, and speaks in a high-pitched voice; she is also resourceful and intelligent. One day, her boyfriend Johnny sees two men stealing money out of a trust fund and takes a picture of this theft. He puts the pictures in a safe deposit box and gives Nikki the key for safekeeping. The thieves catch and murder Johnny and frame Nikki by dumping his body into the trunk of her car, and she is sentenced to seven years in prison. Four years later, tax attorney Loudon Trott (Griffin Dunne) is marrying Wendy (Haviland Morris), the daughter of one of the richest men in New York, Simon Worthington (John McMartin). Wendy is a selfish woman who is more consumed in her wedding plans than in her fiance's well-being. Loudon, on the other hand, has many duties entrusted to him by his boss-and future father-in-law-Mr. Worthington: First he must pick up a cougar for exotic-animal activist Montgomery Bell (John Mills), then he must pick up Nikki (who has been put on parole) and lastly he must make sure she catches the next bus to her home town, Philadelphia. Meanwhile, Nikki is determined to catch the actual thieves and expose the truth. After meeting Loudon, Nikki cons him into taking her shopping. After they take a Rolls-Royce into Harlem to buy a gun-and are nearly arrested during a police raid-she tells Loudon her story; believing she is innocent, he decides to help her. She is also on the run from a pimp named Raoul (Coati Mundi) and his lackey Benny (Dennis Burkley), the ones who killed Johnny. Only after dangling off a Cadillac limousine smashed through the top floor of a parking garage does he tell her the bank and the box number (6111) of her slain boyfriend. Afterward, Nikki vanishes with the cougar, whom she names Murray. Later that night, Loudon visits Mr. Bell to apologize for losing the animal, then finds that Nikki had delivered Murray and was waiting for Loudon at Mr. Bell's penthouse apartment; he has created a Brazilian rain-forest filled with animals on top of his roof. There Nikki and Loudon-who have become close-express love for each other; Murray also finds a mate. Loudon delivers Nikki to the bus station the next morning, but Nikki brokenheartedly realizes that she must return to Philadelphia, leaving Loudon, who is about to get married. On the bus, she opens an envelope from the security box and finds the photographs that prove that Mr. Worthington is an embezzler and he was the mastermind behind the theft. Nikki gate-crashes the wedding, gets Mr. Worthington arrested, and proclaims her love for Loudon. Nikki and Loudon ride off into the sunset on a bus to Philadelphia, with Murray and his partner chasing after them.