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Desperately Seeking Susan
starring: Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum, Laurie Metcalf
directed by: Susan Seidelman

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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792841920
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 0792841921
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: November 11, 1998
Running Time: 107 minutes
Sales Rank: 30074
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: March 29, 1985

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
This likeable, feminist screwball comedy about several incidents of mistaken identity is remembered more as the film that made Madonna a movie star. She's flip, hip, and energetic as Susan, the wild tramp with whom bored, suburban New Jersey housewife Roberta Glass (Rosanna Arquette) becomes obsessed after reading of her sexual conquests in the personal ads. Of course, since Madonna essentially played herself, the role's hardly a stretch. Director Susan Seidelmen presents a series of zany incidents too complicated to recount, but the result is that Roberta swaps lifestyles with her fixation to explore New Wave culture on New York's Lower East Side. It's territory Seidelmen knew well as her more offbeat, indie debut, Smithereens, reveled in the same setting. But where Smithereens took a more edgy approach to its characters, Susan is a fairy tale romantic comedy, and eventually becomes as conventional as the suburban characters it mocks by settling conflicts with predictable Hollywood formulae. Still, there's much to be enjoyed. The film's at its funniest when juxtaposing New York hip and New Jersey suburbia, like when Arquette's straight, suit-and-tie husband dances with Madonna in a punk club. The performances, too, are engaging, especially Arquette and Aidan Quinn, playing a romantic film projectionist who becomes her grubby Prince Charming. --Dave McCoy

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- "Desperately seeking Susan. Meet me, four o'clock, Battery Park. Keep the faith. Love, Jim."
Though the story line has been done so many times it's a great film. I'd seen this several times as a teenager and still think of it the same way. This movie really has less to do with Madonna and more to do with Rosanna Arquette.

It's hard to imagine anybody not coming across this film but if you haven't it starts out with Roseanna Arquette who plays Roberta Glass, a bored New Jersey housewife, who constantly follows the on-going relationship of Jim and Susan. One day, Roberta decides ... Read More

Rating:

- A Fun, Romantic, Escapism Movie
I've always loved this movie. Cute, silly, and fun. Cracks me up every time I watch it.

I'm a fan of Thomas Newman's soundtracks and have this one. If you like the music, you'll want to check out his many other movie scores. One of the rarer ones is "Josh & S.A.M." which is another cute movie and one of my absolute favorite movie scores.

Rating:

- It made Madonna a star
I remembered seeing this movie when I was a kid, when Madonna was new and exciting and innovating. It's twenty years later and she's still new and exciting and innovating. She had made a name for herself with her music, and she has always flirted with a movie career. While this was her first effort, to this day, this maintains to me as her best movie work. Because she was, after all, playing herself.

Madonna plays Susan, a punk rock / New Waver in the 80s who travels all over the world ... Read More

Rating:

- Great Movie!
This movie has always been one of my favorites, so it makes sense that I made it a part of my collection. On the disk's special features there is an alternate ending which puts an intersting perspective to the movie.

Rating:

- The Only 4 Star She'll Ever Get
...Though she didn't earn it.
"DSS" is probably the only movie Madonna-neutral people could ever sit through. We are blessed and should give thanks because she does not try to act. Madonna plays Madonna, forget Susan. In one part she wears a top with the initials MC on the front, as she used some of her own clothes in the film.
If you haven't read the tired plot by now, it's the usual amnesiac thing. A higher class housewife follows the misadventures of a homeless floozy type chick through ... Read More

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