Desperately Seeking Susan

Release Date: 1998-11-11, Rating PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested),

A bump on the head turns a bored housewife into "Susan," a wild rocker on the run. Directed by Susan Seidelman.

Release Date: 2000-06-13, Rating PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested),

Rating PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested),

A delightfully offbeat, original comedy! - Leonard Maltin. It s a comedy of errors and mistaken identities when a bored housewife (Rosanne Arquette) becomes infatuated with an odd-ball woman (Madonna) whom she read about in the personal ads and then becomes her!

DVDs. Desperately Seeking Susan

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. When Roberta travels to the city to witness an ad-inspired meeting between Susan and her lover Jimmy she bumps her head loses her memory and for all intents and purposes becomes Susan thanks to a case of mistaken identity. As a result she is pursued by crooks and other shady characters through the funky East Village of the early '80's. Quinn is the confused film protectionist who stumbles into the role of RobertaSusan's protector. Madonna not quite a superstar when this was filmed uses this small role to show the sort of charisma she would soon shower upon the world in larger doses. Steven Wright Giancarlo Esposito Richard Hell Ann Magnuson John Lurie and Arto Lindsay also turn up in small roles in this screwball '80's love letter to the downtown scene.

MOVIE DVD - A petite New Jersey housewife finds self-fulfillment through amnesia in this new wave comedy of errors set in New York's hip '80s downtown scene. Rosanna Arquette stars as Roberta, who turns to the personals for vicarious thrills after her four-year marriage to staid hot tub salesman Gary (Mark Blum) grows stale. Her favorite classified ads trace the romance of Jim (Robert Joy), a struggling musician, and Susan (Madonna), a SoHo vamp who's just narrowly escaped being murdered alongside one of her other boyfriends -- a gangster who recently stole some Egyptian jewelry. Through a series of complicated missteps, Roberta ends up losing her memory and convincing both herself and a broodingly handsome young man named Dez (Aiden Quinn) that she's the elusive, adventurous Susan. Soon, Roberta finds herself being romanced by Dez and pursued separately by her husband, Jim, Susan, and by a murderous mobster who's looking for the stolen jewels. For her second feature outing, which was partially inspired by Ja