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British Academy of Film & Television Arts Actress in a Supporting Role 1985 · Winner
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy 1986 · Nominated
Desperately Seeking Susan. 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 ...
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
"Desperately Seeking Susan" is a screwball comedy based on several cases of mistaken identity. Susan, for example, is a punk drifter who is in a hotel room with a mobster the first time we see her. Shortly after, the mobster is killed and the mob hit man comes looking for Susan, who may have been a witness.
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Mar 29, 2019 · By Kirk Ellis. March 29, 2019 6:27am. Photofest. On March 29, 1985, Orion unveiled the breezy Desperately Seeking Susan, featuring Madonna’s first starring film role, in limited release. The ...
The New York Times. Desperately Seeking Susan, based on a good screenplay by a new writer named Leora Barish, is a terrifically genial New York City farce in which the lives of two very different young women become tangled in an Orlon web of lies, half-truths and cross purposes. Full of funny, sharply observed details, reflected in Santo ...
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- Susan Seidelman
- PG-13
Find trailers, reviews, synopsis, awards and cast information for Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) - Susan Seidelman on AllMovie - A petite New Jersey housewife finds…
Mar 29, 1985 · ''Desperately Seeking Susan,'' based on a good screenplay by a new writer named Leora Barish, is a terrifically genial New York City farce in which the lives of two very different young women ...