American Dreamer

American Dreamer is a 1984 American film starring JoBeth Williams and Tom Conti. It was directed by Rick Rosenthal from a script by Ann Biderman, David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf. An American housewife wins a trip to Paris in a mystery-writing contest. She loses her memory when she's hit by a car, and begins acting as if she were the female detective in her story. The movie opens with what looks like a stereotypical detective thriller scene. Beautiful and hard-boiled detective "Rebecca Ryan" walks into a railroad car and in a few moments spots her target: a woman in one of the seats near the rear of the car. Rebecca walks up and pulls off the woman's wig, revealing that the "woman" is a man in disguise. Rebecca then delivers the tag line:...