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From: falk@peregrine.Eng.Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
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Subject: Re: Movie Title Request
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Date: 28 Mar 91 03:25:14 GMT
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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
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