DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (WIDESCREEN/FULL SCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1985
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: If you know what to look for, you can find almost anything in the personal ads ... including the love of your life. Rosanna Arquette ('Pulp Fiction') is 'irrestible' ('Newsweek') and, in her first starring role, pop star Madonna ('Evita') gives a 'marvelously comic' ('Time') performance in this 'delightful madcap comedy' ('US Magazine') about mistaken identity. ; ; Bored New Jersey housewife Roberta (Arquette) fills her days by reading the personals ads and following an ongoing romance between 'Jim' (Robert Joy) and 'Susan' (Madonna), a mysterious drifter who appears to lead the kind of free-spirited life about which Roberta can only dream. And dream she does, until the day she actually shows up at the couple's pre-arranged rendezvous in New York City ... and after a bump on the head, a bout of amnesia turns Roberta into Susan and opens the door to intrigue, laughter and love.
• Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum, Robert Joy, Laurie Metcalf, Anna Levine, Will Patton, Peter Maloney, Steven Wright, John Turturro, Anne Carlisle, José Angel Santana, Giancarlo Esposito, Richard Hell, Rockets Redglare, Steve Bosh, Daisy Bradford, Annie Golden, Richard Edson, Ann Magnuson, John Lurie, Mary Joy, Rosemary Hochschild, Iris Chacón, Victor Argo, Shirley Stoler, J.B. Waters, Arto Lindsay, Henry Adler, Marty Gold, Alvy West, Michael R. Chin, Patrick John Hurley, Timothy Carhart, Curt Dempster, Shirley Kaplan, Lázaro Pérez, John Hoyt, Gary Ray, Gary Binkow, Michael Bramon, Joyce Griffen, Paul Austin, Richard S. Lowy, Donna Ritchie, Kim Chan, Michael Badalucco, Elie J. Boubli, Adele Bertei, Peter Castellotti, Wende Dasteel, Steve Eidel, Michael Kaufman, Ilene Kristen, Carol Leifer, Richard Portnow, Isabel García Lorca, Tim Ransom, Gilda Torterello, Stanley Burns, Robert Dahdah, Harsh Nayyar, Frank Stellato, Susan Seidelman, Leora Barish, Sarah Pillsbury, Midge Sanford, Edward Lachman, Andrew Mondshein, Thomas Newman
• Director: Susan Seidelman
• Runtime: 1:44
• Company: MGM / UA
• Media Format: Movie