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Release Date: 1985

Cast: Aidan Quinn, Michael Badalucco, Madonna, Laurie Metcalf, Steven Wright, José Angel Santana, Richard Hell, Anna Levine, Peter Maloney, Carol Leifer, Rosanna Arquette, Giancarlo Esposito ...MORE

Cast: Aidan Quinn, Michael Badalucco, Madonna, Laurie Metcalf, Steven Wright, José Angel Santana, Richard Hell, Anna Levine, Peter Maloney, Carol Leifer, Rosanna Arquette, Giancarlo Esposito, Mark Blum, John Turturro, Anne Carlisle, Robert Joy, Will Patton ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Romance Film, Comedy, Feminist Film, Drama Film, Romantic Comedy, Screwball Comedy, Mystery

Desperately Seeking Susan is a 1985 American comedy-drama film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Rosanna Arquette and Madonna. 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 one such ad with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan" proposes a rendezvous in Battery Park with the man who regularly seeks her. Roberta goes to Battery Park too, gets a glimpse of the... MORE

Desperately Seeking Susan is a 1985 American comedy-drama film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Rosanna Arquette and Madonna. 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 one such ad with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan" proposes a rendezvous in Battery Park with the man who regularly seeks her. Roberta goes to Battery Park too, gets a glimpse of 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. Rosanna Arquette won a BAFTA Award for her portrayal of Roberta; the fact that the award was for a "supporting role" reflected the surge in popularity that Madonna was experiencing at the time, since in terms of billing, number of scenes, lines of dialogue, and the plot, Arquette was actually the film's lead. She was nominated for a Golden LESS