Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
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Reviews Counted: 25 Fresh: 22 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 6.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Synopsis: Rosanna Arquette is Roberta Glass, a bored New Jersey yuppie housewife who finds escapism from her mundane life in the New York personal ad exploits of a flighty bohemian named Susan (Madonna). When Roberta travels to the city to witness an ad-inspired meeting between Susan and her lover... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Madonna, Rosanna Arquette, Mark Blum, Laurie Metcalf, Aidan Quinn
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05/23/08
Director Susan Seidelman guides her cast with a light, enthusiastic touch, never making more out of her frothy material than need be.
05/23/08
All of this is cause for consistent smiling and a few outright laughs, without ever building to complete comedy.
05/23/08
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The film acquires a pleasant, syncopated rhythm as it bounces from one unlikely event to another.
05/23/08
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Featuring the first (and only decent) screen performance by Madona, this charming comedy imposes the old fracical gimmick of amnesia on a hip and stylish East Village milieu.
06/20/06
Even if the plotting (a mistaken identity farce involving that old chestnut, amnesia brought on by a bump to the head) is square as a square peg. Madonna has never found a better fit than the role of Susan.
01/26/06
It has its moments, and many of them involve the different kinds of special appeal that Arquette and Madonna are able to generate.
10/23/04
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