Desperately Seeking Susan
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Time Out says
Mired in suburban wedlock Roberta (Arquette) turns to the personal ads for vicarious romance, with unexpected results. Seidelman brings a hip '80s SoHo sensibility to this emancipated screwball comedy, even if the plotting (a mistaken identity farce involving that old chestnut, amnesia brought on by a bump to the head) is square as a square peg. Madonna has never found a better fit than the role of Susan, a thrift-store free spirit - and even then Arquette gives as good as she gets with a deliciously kooky comic turn. Followers of indepedent American cinema should keep an eye out for John Turturro, Richard Edson, John Lurie, Giancarlo Esposito, Anne Carlisle, Victor Argo, Richard Hell and Rockets Redglare, among others.Author: TCh
Release details
UK release:
1985
Duration:
103 mins
Cast and crew
Cast:
John Lurie, Robert Joy, Rosanna Arquette, Steven Wright, John Turturro, Ann Magnuson, Rockets Redglare, Mark Blum, Aidan Quinn, Madonna, Will Patton
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Producer:
Sarah Pillsbury, Midge Sanford
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