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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 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.
- 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.
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan" proposes a rendezvous.
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Sep 25, 2023 · Desperately Seeking Susan is a 1985 comedy-drama film directed by Susan Seidelman, starring Rosanna Arquette and Madonna. The film follows the story of Roberta Glass, a bored suburban housewife who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman named Susan after reading her personal ads in the newspaper.
Laurie Metcalf plays Arquette's yuppie sister-in-law. Robert Joy plays Susan's desperately seeking lover. Peter Maloney is the broken-down magician. New York underground characters such as Richard Hell, Anne Carlisle and Rockets Red Glare also surface briefly.
