Desperately Seeking Susan
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| Directed by | Susan Seidelman |
| Produced by | Sarah Pillsbury Midge Sanford |
| Written by | Leora Barish Uncredited: Craig Bolotin |
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| Music by | Thomas Newman |
| Cinematography | Edward Lachman |
| Edited by | Andrew Mondshein |
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| Distributed by | Orion Pictures |
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104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4.5 million |
| Box office | $27,398,584 |
Desperately Seeking Susan is a 1985 American comedy-drama film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Rosanna Arquette and Madonna. Set in New York, the plot involves the interaction between two women – a bored housewife and a bohemian drifter – linked by various announcements in the personal column of a newspaper.
This was Madonna’s first major screen role and the film also provided early roles for a number of other well-known performers, such as John Turturro, Laurie Metcalf, Aidan Quinn and Steven Wright.
The New York Times named the film as one of the 10 best films of 1985.
Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) is an unfulfilled suburban housewife living in Fort Lee, New Jersey who is fascinated with a woman she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of a New York City tabloid. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan" seeks a rendezvous in Battery Park with the man who regularly seeks her (i.e. Jim, played by Robert Joy). Roberta goes to Battery Park too, sees the woman (Madonna), and in a series of events involving mistaken identity, amnesia, and other farcical elements, Roberta goes from voyeur to participant in an Alice in Wonderland–style plot, ostensibly motivated by the search for a pair of stolen Egyptian earrings. With both of them trying to locate Roberta, her husband Gary (Mark Blum) encounters the wild Susan.
The film holds an 85% "Fresh" rating at the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 23 reviews. In her review for The New Yorker, critic Pauline Kael praised Madonna's performance as "an indolent, trampy goddess."The New York Times film critic Vincent Canby named the film as one of the 10 best films of 1985.
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