Rosanna Arquette
Roberta Glass/'Susan'
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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.
- Sarah Pillsbury, Midge Sanford
- Thomas Newman
- March 29, 1985
Robert Joy (born August 17, 1951) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as medical examiner Sid Hammerback on the police procedural series CSI: NY, and his appearances in the films Atlantic City (1980), Ragtime (1981), Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Land of the Dead (2005), and The Hills Have Eyes (2006).
YearTitleRoleNotes2022Hunter FoxRecurring role; 7 episodes2021Gerald Morris1 episode: "Exit Strategy"2015Ira Goldstein2 episodes2015Monguno's Father2 episodesApr 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.
- Susan Seidelman
- 2 min
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. The director is Susan Seidelman, whose previous film, "Smithereens," was a similar excursion through the uncharted depths of New York.
- 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.
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Robert Joy: Jim. Showing all 7 items. Jump to: Photos (2) Quotes (5) Photos. Quotes. Jim : You were with this guy? Susan : He was breathing when I left. Dez : That's not Susan. I've never even seen that girl before. Jim : That's Susan! Do you think I should know? Dez : What? That might be *a* Susan; but that's not *my* Susan. Jim : It's my Susan!
