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Certificate 12

Cast Sean Penn Madonna Richard Griffiths

Directors Jim Goddard

Screenwriters John Kohn Robert Bentley

Running Time 97 minutes

Shanghai Surprise
Adventure caper starring Madonna and Sean Penn.

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Plot
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 looking for the fastest way out of China. Together they cook up a smuggling scheme, but it attracts the unwanted attention of... just about everybody.

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