After True Blue established her as the diva of the decade, able to go toe-to-toe with Prince and Michael Jackson in terms of both record sales and cultural relevance, everything became available for Madonna - songs, scripts, you name it. This was a tantalizingly brief period during which the concept of Madonna acting didn’t make your right eye start to twitch… Unfortunately, while she might have been great at picking songs, she clearly didn’t have the same aptitude for picking scripts. With the world at her doorstep, she picked the script for a “zany” comedy called Slammer , to some degree an ‘80s takeoff on Bringing Up Baby , about a street-smart girl falsely accused of murder. On paper this premise could work, but Madge’s take on Nikki Finn is more annoying than endearing. Griffin Dunne and a cougar named Murray deliver the best performances in this dippy mess of a film, although Madonna looks great, which in the ‘80s is all that mattered, right?...
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