Who’s That Girl

Directed by James Foley, Who’s That Girl follows straightlaced, uptight attorney Loudon Trott (Griffin Dunne) as he’s tasked with escorting a recently-paroled troublemaker (Madonna’s Nikki Finn) out of town – with complications ensuing after Nikki decides to make a few stops along the way. It’s a familiar premise that’s employed to mostly watchable (if entirely forgettable) effect by Foley, as the director, working from Andrew Smith and Ken Finkleman’s screenplay, delivers a briskly-paced caper that benefits from Dunne and Madonna’s energetic work (and it doesn’t hurt, certainly, that the actors possess genuine chemistry with one another). The narrative’s episodic structure admittedly does pave the way for a hit-and-miss midsection, and it’s hard to deny that certain sequences aren’t quite able to make the frenetic and aggressively comedic impact for which Foley is obviously striving – with the end result an agreeable endeavor that certainly doesn’t hold up to any close scrutiny.

**1/2 out of ****