Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:21
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Comedies
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).... [More]
Starring: Madonna, Rosanna Arquette, Mark Blum, Laurie Metcalf
Director: Susan Seidelman
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Reviews for Desperately Seeking Susan
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Director Susan Seidelman guides her cast with a light, enthusiastic touch, never making more out of her frothy material than need be. Full Review |
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All of this is cause for consistent smiling and a few outright laughs, without ever building to complete comedy. Full Review |
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The film acquires a pleasant, syncopated rhythm as it bounces from one unlikely event to another. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Offbeat Susan Seidelman comedy features funny Madonna and Arquette.
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It has its moments, and many of them involve the different kinds of special appeal that Arquette and Madonna are able to generate. Full Review |
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This has to be the most overrated movie of 1985. Full Review |
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1/5 |
Surprisingly boring and annoying '80s movie. Mistaken identity, blah. Nothing really funny happens.
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