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Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) | Classification: Comedy Actors/Actresses: - Madonna - Rosanna Arquette cute comedy Rosanna Arquette and Madonna star in the cute comedy DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN, a tale of two women and a pair of earrings... Susan (Madonna) is a free spirit: she lives fast and breaks hearts. After walking out on a high-roller in Atlantic City (taking a priceless pair of Egyptian earrings with her), she returns to New York, only to read a newspaper headline describing his murder. She does not realise that the killer is now on the trail of the earrings; a trail that will eventually lead to her. Meanwhile, bored New Jersey housewife Roberta Glass (Rosanna Arquette) is idly reading the personal ads. "Desperately Seeking Susan" announces a lover's plea, and she wishes someone would look desperately for her. Susan makes the rendezvous. And so does Roberta. And from then on their lives intertwine in a high-speed drama of fantasy and reality. Exchanging clothes, identities - and men. Until even the murderer does not know which Susan he's desperate to meet. Featuring Madonna's hit chart-topping single "Into The Groove", this wonderful comedy is an endless delight. Featuring Aidan Quinn, Laurie Metcalf and Robert Joy. The DVD also includes an alternative ending and original theatrical trailer. My, how we've all aged. Back in the mid-Eighties, MTV played the video for Madonna's "Get into the Groove", the hit single from the soundtrack to *Desperately Seeking Susan*, about, oh, 120 freakin' times a day. The video featured so many clips from the film, and the network played the damn video so often, that I certainly never felt the need to see the movie. (Of course, my status as a rocker made seeing a movie starring Madonna prohibitive, anyway.) However, the additions of two decades of physical decay, a pot belly, and a few "distinguished" gray hairs -- in other words, maturity -- has made me appreciate now what I missed back then. Director Susan Seidelman's *Desperately Seeking Susan* is a pretty faultless farce, almost equal to Shakespeare's *Comedy of Errors* (from which it seems to draw its prime inspiration). The plot is impressively complicated: a well-to-do New Jersey housewife (Rosanna Arquette), when not hosting parties for her selfish husband, spends her time following the love affair of "Susan" and her beau in the Personal ads. A series of wildly implausible events culminates in her becoming an amnesiac. She's mistaken for "Susan" by the buddy of Susan's boyfriend, and so she naturally comes to believe that she really IS Susan. Whew! -- did I mention that someone's willing to kill "Susan" for her earrings, which turn out to be genuine Egyptian jewelry of great antiquity? The resolution to all this malarkey is composed like a great farcical fugue, with the plot elements falling lovingly into place (but even so, there's a surprise or two that awaits). Perhaps of even greater interest is the now-nostalgic view of 1980's New York City, which Seidelman renders with exactitude and a surprising amount of real, dirty, pre-Giuliani grit. Madonna fascinates, too: it's almost touching to see her obvious lack of confidence, her tentativeness . . . hell, her eagerness to please. In this movie, she's not even remotely the same person as the middle-aged virago of ego we all know and love today. Finally, the plot's emphasis on Personal ads makes *Desperately Seeking Susan* seem like a quaint antique when viewed in today's age of e-mail. (The movie could not be made today. Susan and her boyfriend would simply have exchanged private e-mails, and Arquette's character would never have known about it.) In other words, it's bound to make aging GenX'ers feel more than a bit melancholy and, well, old. But that's all right. Time may march on, but the movies of our youth remain young at heart. GREAT MOVIE !!!! I LOVE THIS MOVIE THIS IS A GREAT MOVIE. THIS IS MY FAVORITE MADONNA MOVIE SHE CO-STARS W/ ROSANNA ARQUETTE . I REALLY DID LIKE THIS MOVIE. THIS MOVIE IS ABOUT A MIX UP WHERE ROSANNA ARQUETTE FOLLOWS THIS PERSONAL AD:"DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN"(MADONNA) AND ABOUT A GUY NAMED JIM. (ROBERTA) ROSANNA ARQUETTE THINKS HER NAME IS SUSAN AND IT IS JUST A GREAT BIG MIX-UP BUT AT THE END THINGS FALL INTO PLACE BUT SOME CHANGES ARE MADE BUT THE MOVIE IS GREAT I LOVED IT AND I RECOMMEND ANY MADONNA FAN SHOULD HAVE THIS VIDEO IN THEIR COLLECTION. Buy Desperately Seeking Susan at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Desperately Seeking Susan Search with the Priority Search Engine on Desperately Seeking Susan This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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