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Desperately Seeking Susan is a 1985 American comedy-drama film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Rosanna Arquette, Aidan Quinn and Madonna.Set in New York City, the plot involves the interaction between two women – a bored housewife and a bohemian drifter – linked by various messages in the personals section of a newspaper.
Apr 12, 1985 · Desperately Seeking Susan: Directed by Susan Seidelman. With Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum. 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.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Susan Seidelman
- 1985-04-12
Jun 11, 2024 · It took a little over nine weeks to shoot Desperately Seeking Susan. One of our final filming locations was the Magic Club, the set we created inside the Audubon Ballroom on 165th Street and Broadway.
- Garin Pirnia
- A French film influenced the screenplay for Desperately Seeking Susan. Leora Barish, who wrote the script for Desperately Seeking Susan, told Yahoo! that the screenplay was influenced by Jacques Rivette’s 1974 film Celine and Julie Go Boating.
- The filmmakers considered Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn to play Susan and Roberta, respectively. “When I first got involved, the characters were of a different generation,” Seidelman told Yahoo!.
- Susan Seidelman convinced the studio to cast Madonna. “I pulled for Madonna—I knew her from living downtown,” Seidelman told Yahoo!. “Studio execs had never heard of her, so [director of photography] Ed Lachman and I went to Union Square to shoot her audition reel.
- The original script had a different ending. The film ends (SPOILER!) with Roberta staying with Dez, played by Aidan Quinn, and Susan with Jim, played by Robert Joy.
Jul 29, 2023 · 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...
- 7 min
- 21.4K
- MGM
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Mar 28, 2021 · New Jersey housewife Roberta Glass (Rosanna Arquette) spices up her boring life by reading personal ads, especially a series of them being placed by a myster...
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- 221.4K
- Amazon MGM Studios
A comedy about a housewife who becomes obsessed with a punk drifter (Madonna) after reading her personal ad. The film features a series of mistaken identities, a mob hit, a magician and New York characters.
