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Desperately Seeking Susan
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.
1985 · Directed by Susan Seidelman · 104 min · Comedy · Crime · 10 frames
Tagline
Every man is desperate to have her. One woman is desperate to be her. But someone is desperate to kill her. If they can figure out who she is.
Crew
- Written by: Leora Barish
- Cinematography: Edward Lachman
- Edited by: Andrew Mondshein
- Music: Thomas Newman
- Production design: Santo Loquasto
- Produced by: Midge Sanford, Sarah Pillsbury
Cast
- Rosanna Arquette as Roberta Glass
- Madonna as Susan
- Aidan Quinn as Dez
- Mark Blum as Gary Glass
- Robert Joy as Jim
- Laurie Metcalf as Leslie Glass
- Anna Thomson as Crystal
- Will Patton as Wayne Nolan
- Steven Wright as Larry Stillman D.D.S.
- John Turturro as Ray
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Orion Pictures
- Budget: $4,500,000
- Box office: $27,399,597
- Themes: amnesia, lonely hearts ad, woman director
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