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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792845775
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792845773
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 13, 2000
Running Time: 104 minutes
Sales Rank: 7390
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: March 29, 1985
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Description:
If you know what to look for, you can find almost anything in the personal ads...including the loveof your life! Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction) is "irresistible" (Newsweek) and, in her first starring role, pop star Madonna (Evita) gives a "marvelously comic" (Time) performance in this "delightful madcap comedy" (US) about mistaken identity. Bored New Jersey housewife Roberta (Arquette) fills her days by reading the personal ads and following an ongoing romance between "Jim" (Robert Joy) and "Susan" (Madonna), a mysterious drifter who leads the kind of free-spirited life about which Roberta can only dream. And dream she does, until the day she actually shows up at the couple's prearranged rendezvous in New York City...and after a bump on the head, a bout of amnesia turns Roberta into Susan and opens the door to intrigue, laughter and love!
Amazon.com:
This likeable, feminist screwball comedy about several incidents of mistaken identity is remembered more as the film that made Madonna a movie star. She's flip, hip, and energetic as Susan, the wild tramp with whom bored, suburban New Jersey housewife Roberta Glass (Rosanna Arquette) becomes obsessed after reading of her sexual conquests in the personal ads. Of course, since Madonna essentially played herself, the role's hardly a stretch. Director Susan Seidelmen presents a series of zany incidents too complicated to recount, but the result is that Roberta swaps lifestyles with her fixation to explore New Wave culture on New York's Lower East Side. It's territory Seidelmen knew well as her more offbeat, indie debut, Smithereens, reveled in the same setting. But where Smithereens took a more edgy approach to its characters, Susan is a fairy tale romantic comedy, and eventually becomes as conventional as the suburban characters it mocks by settling conflicts with predictable Hollywood formulae. Still, there's much to be enjoyed. The film's at its funniest when juxtaposing New York hip and New Jersey suburbia, like when Arquette's straight, suit-and-tie husband dances with Madonna in a punk club. The performances, too, are engaging, especially Arquette and Aidan Quinn, playing a romantic film projectionist who becomes her grubby Prince Charming. --Dave McCoy
Average Rating: 
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DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN is a fun 80s movie and Madonna's best character (though many would argue she was just playing herself).
The plot centers around a bored New Jersey housewife named Roberta (Rosanna Arquette,) who daydreams about adventure and romance, as she becomes obsessed with someone named Susan (Madonna) whom she read about in the "personals" section of the paper. Roberta goes into New York City, bumps her head and loses her memory, suddenly finding herself in the middle ... Read More
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Madonna was supposed to be at the premiere of her picture when I watched it, but rumor had it she was delayed because a maniac stalker was trying to break into her house. But my guess was she hid in the manager's office like most stars do and sat down during the last part of the film. Oh, the film. Aidan Quinn does quite well as the projectionist who falls in love with her during the identity confusion- Susan tramps the streets dressed like Madonna and vice versa. Will Patton plays a gangster out to ... Read More
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Though the story line has been done so many times it's a great film. I'd seen this several times as a teenager and still think of it the same way. This movie really has less to do with Madonna and more to do with Rosanna Arquette.
It's hard to imagine anybody not coming across this film but if you haven't it starts out with Roseanna Arquette who plays Roberta Glass, a bored New Jersey housewife, who constantly follows the on-going relationship of Jim and Susan. One day, Roberta decides ... Read More
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I've always loved this movie. Cute, silly, and fun. Cracks me up every time I watch it.
I'm a fan of Thomas Newman's soundtracks and have this one. If you like the music, you'll want to check out his many other movie scores. One of the rarer ones is "Josh & S.A.M." which is another cute movie and one of my absolute favorite movie scores.
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I remembered seeing this movie when I was a kid, when Madonna was new and exciting and innovating. It's twenty years later and she's still new and exciting and innovating. She had made a name for herself with her music, and she has always flirted with a movie career. While this was her first effort, to this day, this maintains to me as her best movie work. Because she was, after all, playing herself.
Madonna plays Susan, a punk rock / New Waver in the 80s who travels all over the world ... Read More
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