Madonna: Truth or Dare

Madonna: Truth or Dare
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Alek Keshishian
Produced by	Madonna Tim Clawson Steve Golin Lisa Hollingshead Daniel Radford Jay Roewe Sigurjón Sighvatsson
Starring	Madonna
Narrated by	Madonna
Music by	Madonna
Cinematography	Christophe Lanzeburg Robert Leacock Doug Nichol Daniel Pearl Toby Phillips Marc Reshovsky
Edited by	Barry Alexander Brown
Production company	Boy Toy, Inc. Propaganda Films
Distributed by	Miramax Films (North America) Dino De Laurentiis Communications (Europe)
Release date	May 10, 1991 (1991-05-10) (limited release) May 24, 1991 (1991-05-24) (wide release)
Running time	122 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$4.5 million
Box office	$29,012,935

Madonna: Truth or Dare (known as In Bed with Madonna outside of North America) is a 1991 American documentary film chronicling the life of American singer and songwriter Madonna during her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour. The film was generally well received by critics and was successful at the box office, at that point becoming the highest-grossing documentary of all time with a worldwide gross of $29,012,935. It was screened out of competition at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2005, Madonna produced another documentary, I'm Going to Tell You a Secret, which followed her 2004 Re-Invention World Tour. It was filmed and narrated in the same style as Truth or Dare, with stage performances filmed in colour and behind-the-scenes in black and white. Truth or Dare was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Actress for Madonna as herself, which she lost to Sean Young for A Kiss Before Dying. It holds an 80% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The film begins on August 6, 1990, the day after the final show of the Blond Ambition Tour in Nice. Madonna cleans up her hotel room while, in a voice-over, she explains that she is not as emotional as the rest of her group over the end of the tour. She has already grieved, she says, but it will hit her later and she hopes she will be in a safe place when it happens.

In a flashback to April 1990, the tour is about to kick off in Japan. Everything is a mess; there are sound problems and Madonna did not realize that the tour is during the rainy season in Japan. Because it is cold and wet, Madonna and the dancers scrap their costumes for warmer attire. In a voice-over, Madonna confesses that the only thing keeping her from "slashing my wrists" is the thought of returning to North America and performing the show as it is meant to be. In America, Madonna meets the families of her dancers. One dancer, Oliver, sees his father for the first time in several years, while Madonna talks with her father, Silvio "Tony" Ciccone, on the phone. Though she insists that she can get him tickets, he is reluctant to impose.