Desperately Seeking Susan

Desperately Seeking Susan is a 1985 American comedydrama film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Rosanna Arquette and Madonna. Set in New York, the plot involves the interaction between two women a bored housewife and a bohemian drifter linked by various announcements in the personal column of a newspaper.

Roberta Rosanna Arquette is an unfulfilled suburban housewife living in Fort Lee, New Jersey who is fascinated with a woman she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of a New York City tabloid. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline Desperately Seeking Susan seeks a rendezvous in Battery Park with the man who regularly seeks her i.e. Jim, played by Robert Joy. Roberta goes to Battery Park too, sees the woman Madonna, and in a series of events involving mistaken identity, amnesia, and other farcical elements, Roberta goes from voyeur to participant in an Alice in Wonderlandstyle plot, ostensibly motivated by the search for a pair of stolen Egyptian earrings. With both of them trying to locate Roberta, her husband Gary Mark Blum encounters the wild Susan.The film holds an 85 Fresh rating at the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based onreviews. In her review for The New Yorker, critic Pauline Kael praised Madonnas performance as an indolent, trampy goddess. The New York Times film critic Vincent Canby named the film as one of thebest films of 1985. ........

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