Desperately Seeking Susan

1985

Action / Comedy / Drama

40
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 86% · 37 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 63% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 29412 29.4K

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Plot summary

A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.

Director

Susan Seidelman Photo
Susan Seidelman

Top cast

Giancarlo Esposito Photo
Giancarlo Esposito as Street Vendor
John Turturro Photo
John Turturro as Ray
Steven Wright Photo
Steven Wright as Larry Stillman D.D.S
Carol Leifer Photo
Carol Leifer as Party Guest
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809.65 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
PG-13
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 4
1.64 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
PG-13
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 25

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Wuchak 6 / 10

***Screwball drama in Manhattan with Rosanna Arquette and

***Screwball drama in Manhattan with Rosanna Arquette and Madonna*** Roberta (Rosanna Arquette), a bored housewife in the New York City area, becomes obsessed with a wild child named Susan (Madonna) through the personal ads and inadvertently takes on her persona when she visits Manhattan. Unfortunately a hooligan is after Susan for priceless Egyptian earrings (Will Patton). Mark Blum plays Roberta’s jerk husband and Aidan Quinn a new friend in the city. “Desperately Seeking Susan” (1985) is a quirky drama revolving around mistaken identity in an unlikely story. It’s entertaining enough and also works as a window into mid-80’s New York City. How much a viewer will appreciate it depends on how smitten (or not smitten) they are with Arquette. She’s winsome, for sure, but I can take her or leave her. Madonna is more alluring in the lesser role, but I’m not big on her either; still, there are a couple scenes that nicely spotlight her attractiveness. The film runs 1 hour and 43 minutes and was shot in Manhattan; Manhasset, Long Island; and Atlantic City. GRADE: B-
Reviewed by TimtheGiant 10 / 10

I always thought this was one of Madonna's

I always thought this was one of Madonna's best film performance yet.
Reviewed by gbill-74877 7 / 10

An 80's time capsule

As silly as the plot of this film is, it's gotten slightly better with age, containing as it does a little time capsule of the 1980's. There is Madonna's fashion sense and her song Into the Groove of course, but also little things, like how sushi was a new thing in America at the time, or a cameo from the triplets who were all the rage (see the documentary, Three Identical Strangers (2018)). As much as I loved seeing John Turturro and Laurie Metcalf in very early roles for them, I loved seeing comedian Steven Wright even more. He always cracked me up, though he isn't given a lot to work with here. Madonna was on top of the world at this time and is alluring as expected here, and there are feminist messages in both her character's strength and the bored housewife's (Rosanna Arquette) emerging understanding of just how disappointed she is in her husband's inattentiveness. There are massive plot contrivances, like the bonks on the head that conveniently produce amnesia and then later "no amnesia," but it's fun, light-hearted fare.
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