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Desperately Seeking Susan

Cast

Madonna, Rosanna Arquette, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum View All

Crew

Leora Barish (Writer), Susan Seidelman (Director) View All

Release: Mar. 29th, 1985

Runtime: 1 hour, 44 minutes

Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan" proposes a rendezvous. Roberta goes too, and in a series of events involving amnesia and mistaken identity, steps into Susan's life.

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mark f
Dez finds Roberta, just after she's been mugged, and since she's wearing Susan's jacket and can't seem to remember who she is because of the attack, Dez assumes she's Susan.

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Gideon58
Desperately Seeking Susan is a clever and extremely well-written comic confection revolving around a bored New Jersey housewife named Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) who religiously follows the postings of a girl named Susan in the personal ads of her local newspaper because she apparently finds some kin....