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Brenda Starr is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Robert Ellis Miller released in USA on 15 april 1992 with Brooke Shields
Brenda Starr (1989)
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Add to a movie listBrenda Starr is a 1989 adventure film, based on Dale Messick's Brenda Starr comic strip. The film was directed by Robert Ellis Miller, and stars Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, and Jeffrey Tambor.
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Mike is a struggling artist who draws the Brenda Starr comic strip for a newspaper. When Brenda comes to life and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, she leaves the comic. To return her to her rightful place and keep his job, Mike draws himself into the strip.Actors
Brooke Shields
(Brenda Starr)
Timothy Dalton
(Basil St. John)
Diana Scarwid
(Libby 'Lips' Lipscomb)
Nestor Serrano
(Jose)
Jeffrey Tambor
(Vladimir)
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