hrdoucet@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Heloise Doucet) (03/14/91)
A few weeks ago someone posted a request for movies that featured a
woman as the heroine - she gets the guy at the end etc.
I know of a movie but I can't seem to remember the title. The plot
goes like this.
A housewife enters a novel about a James' bond type heroine with a gay
sidekick into a writing contest. She wins a trip to Paris or London.
She then gets amnesia and thinks she is her heroine and teams up with
a guy she thinks is her sidekick to solve a murder. She solves it,
falls in love with the guy and he with her. Her husband comes to
fetch her but she doesn't want to be a housewife anymore but a writer.
He disagrees. She leaves him for her sidekick, takes the kids, has a
successful writing career and lives happily ever after.
Anyone know the title?
I thought it was a good movie but I saw it so long ago. Too bad women
weren't like this for real in the movies.
Heloise
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hrdoucet@cgl.waterloo.edu ((H)eloise Doucet)falk@peregrine.Eng.Sun.COM (Ed Falk) (03/28/91)
In article <1991Mar13.171757.27494@watcgl.waterloo.edu> hrdoucet@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Heloise Doucet) writes: |A housewife enters a novel about a James' bond type heroine with a gay |sidekick into a writing contest. She wins a trip to Paris or London. |She then gets amnesia and thinks she is her heroine and teams up with |a guy she thinks is her sidekick to solve a murder. She solves it, |falls in love with the guy and he with her. Her husband comes to |fetch her but she doesn't want to be a housewife anymore but a writer. |He disagrees. She leaves him for her sidekick, takes the kids, has a |successful writing career and lives happily ever after. | |Anyone know the title? American Dreamer. She wins a trip to Paris, and while chasing a purse-snatcher conks her head. The rest is exactly as you desribed. I was struck by the similarity of this movie to "Desperately Seeking Susan" -- bored/boring housewife hits her head and wakes up thinking she's somebody interesting, and thus *becomes* somebody interesting. >I thought it was a good movie but I saw it so long ago. Too bad women >weren't like this for real in the movies. I dunno, a *lot* of mystery movies have female sleuths. Personally, I liked Sigorney Weaver in Aliens (or most of her other movies for that matter) the best. -ed falk, sun microsystems sun!falk, falk@sun.com To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags -- that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal (Mark Twain).
hrdoucet@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Heloise Doucet) (04/06/91)
In article <9811@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> falk@peregrine.Eng.Sun.COM (Ed Falk) writes: >In article <1991Mar13.171757.27494@watcgl.waterloo.edu> hrdoucet@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Heloise Doucet) writes: < description of movie American Dreamer > >I was struck by the similarity of this movie to "Desperately Seeking >Susan" -- bored/boring housewife hits her head and wakes up thinking >she's somebody interesting, and thus *becomes* somebody interesting. True, but I think American Dreamer was done better. DSS didn't really make an impression on me. >>I thought it was a good movie but I saw it so long ago. Too bad women >>weren't like this for real in the movies. >I dunno, a *lot* of mystery movies have female sleuths. Personally, I >liked Sigorney Weaver in Aliens (or most of her other movies for that >matter) the best. Well, I was responding to the original post which asked for movies that had aggressive women as the lead in them who "get the guy in the end" -- just as the man usually gets the girl in the end. i.e., James Bond and other spy adventure movies. Also, I can think of few movies that portray a female as being that aggressive. BUT there are many out there showing the guy being that aggressive. Sorry, Aliens is a good movie and Sigorney Weaver is great! But, she didn't get the guy in the end. The only other movie of my description that I can think of is Jumping Jack Flash with Whoopie Goldberg. And, it wasn't very popular. So, if you could name ALL these mystery movies with aggressive female sleuths and prove me wrong I will be willing to admit the mistakes in my assumptions. Heloise ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I may be a dumb blonde but at least I'm a natural dumb blonde! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm sure that if you feel my arguments are wrong you'll correct me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I love mail -- and my boyfriend :-) (should I be telling people this?) Oh well, just send it to hrdoucet@cgl.waterloo.edu ((H)eloise Doucet)