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Product Information

As the result of a strange mishap, the lives of a free-spirited rock star and a conservative suburban housewife are reversed.

Product Identifiers

EAN5050070002942

eBay Product ID (ePID)3946029

Product Key Features

ActorRobert Jay, Madonna, Rosanna Arquette, Aidan Quinn

Film/TV TitleDesperately Seeking Susan

DirectorSusan Seidelman

LanguageEnglish

Subtitle LanguageDanish\Dutch\English\Finnish\French\German\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Swedish

Run Time119 Mins

Aspect Ratio1.85 Wide Screen\16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

FormatDVD

Release Year2000

FeaturesWidescreen, Closed Caption, With Subtitles, Interactive Menu\Theatrical Trailer\Chapter Access\Alternative Ending

GenreGeneral, Comedy

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate15

Hearing ImpairedEnglish\German

ReviewsNew York Times - Included in the New York Times "10 BEST FILMS OF 1985"

Additional InformationArquette 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 intensive 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 1980s. Quinn is the confused film protectionist who stumbles into the role of Roberta/Susan'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 fun, screwball 80s love letter to the downtown scene.

ScreenwriterLeora Barish

Dubbing LanguagesGerman\French

Sound sourceMono

Movie/TV TitleDesperately Seeking Susan