Film1985104 min

Desperately Seeking Susan

Name: Desperately Seeking Susan
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1985
Duration: 104 min
Cast: Madonna, Rosanna Arquette, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum, Robert Joy

Taste attributes: comedydramasurrealcomplex relationshipsolving the riddle/not as it seems

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"Roberta is desperate to be Susan. Susan is wanted by the mob. The mob finds Roberta instead..."

Boxlist takeA comedy-drama that sits near the middle on every taste dimension: nothing pushed to extremes.

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Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: surreal · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

Quality rating

6.1 /10

TMDB · 307 votes

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Pace: Balanced, just how this profile likes it
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Synopsis

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. Roberta goes too, and in a series of events involving amnesia and mistaken identity, steps into Susan's life.

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