‘Shanghai Surprise’ at 35: The story behind the infamous Razzie-winning Madonna flop

    Shanghai Surprise (MGM/UIP) When it all started going wrong, they called George Harrison. The former Beatle’s movie shingle, Handmade Films, was the company behind one of 1986’s biggest cinematic hopes — Shanghai Surprise — an international period caper starring the biggest celebrity in the world and her recently acquired husband, himself a critically-acclaimed actor. But…

Filmography presents: Madonna and Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (1986) – press, memorabilia, trailer, order links

Shanghai Surprise has been completed and has been added to our Filmography, on which we are working on in chronological order. Going back to 1986 where the newly wedded couple Madonna and Sean Penn took on their first (and only) movie together, expectations were high after the popular and well received Desperately Seeking Susan but…