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Desperately Seeking Susan
Bored Roberta accidentally gets hit on the head, wakes up with amnesia, and is mistaken for a free-spirited New York City drifter named Susan.
1956
July 12, 1961 in Long Island, New York, USA
2 October 1949, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
1 November 1935, Detroit, Michigan, USA
27 July 1956, New York, USA
22 June 1919, New York City, New York, USA
16 June 1955, Carbondale, Illinois, USA
28 December 1917, Guangdong, China
July 25, 2002
Works despite Madonna and not really because of her.
June 20, 2006
Featuring the first (and only decent) screen performance by Madona, this charming comedy imposes the old fracical gimmick of amnesia on a hip and stylish East Village milieu.
October 23, 2004
It has its moments, and many of them involve the different kinds of special appeal that Arquette and Madonna are able to generate.
July 26, 2002
Still Madonna's only worthwhile film performance.
July 14, 2003
Surprisingly boring and annoying '80s movie. Mistaken identity, blah. Nothing really funny happens.
March 26, 2004
This has to be the most overrated movie of 1985.
May 23, 2008
The film acquires a pleasant, syncopated rhythm as it bounces from one unlikely event to another.
November 03, 2002
Oddball fun.
January 26, 2006
Even if the plotting (a mistaken identity farce involving that old chestnut, amnesia brought on by a bump to the head) is square as a square peg. Madonna has never found a better fit than the role of Susan.
May 23, 2008
Director Susan Seidelman guides her cast with a light, enthusiastic touch, never making more out of her frothy material than need be.
May 23, 2008
All of this is cause for consistent smiling and a few outright laughs, without ever building to complete comedy.
June 08, 2005
Offbeat Susan Seidelman comedy features funny Madonna and Arquette.