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Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
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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...
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Desperately Seeking Susan Movie Review by Zara  (3/6/2007) |
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A movie marketed to appeal to the fans of the singer, this movie really has less to do with Madonna and more to do with Rosanna Arquette. As a woman trapped in a boring marriage and sick of being the good housewife, she gets caught up in a romance that's going on between two people in the want ads.
However, when she goes...
(complete Desperately Seeking Susan review by Zara)
| Desperately Seeking Susan Movie Review by Bennie (10/13/2009) |
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Desperately Seeking Susan is the weakest comedy I've seen in a while, if it can be called a comedy. It was one of the first screen appearances of Madonna. She plays Susan, a beautiful, wild woman on the run. Meanwhile, Rosanna Arquette is bored housewife Roberta who is trapped in an unhappy marriage. Her husband is...
(complete Desperately Seeking Susan review by Bennie)
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