Desperately Seeking Susan
- Released on
- Runtime
- 104 mins
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan" proposes a rendezvous. Roberta goes too, and in a series of events involving amnesia and mistaken identity, steps into Susan's life.
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan" proposes a rendezvous. Roberta goes too, and in a series of events involving amnesia and mistaken identity, steps into Susan's life.
Cast
- Rosanna Arquette
- Madonna
- Aidan Quinn
- Mark Blum
- Robert Joy
- Laurie Metcalf
- Anna Thomson
- Will Patton
- Steven Wright
- John Turturro
- Giancarlo Esposito
- Richard Hell
- Rockets Redglare
- Annie Golden
- Richard Edson
- Ann Magnuson
- John Lurie
- Peter Maloney
- Anne Carlisle
- Victor Argo
- José Angel Santana
- Steve Bosh
- Daisy Bradford
- Mary Joy
- Rosemary Hochschild
- Iris Chacón Tapia
- Shirley Stoler
- J.B. Waters
- Arto Lindsay
- Henry Adler
- Marty Gold
- Michael R. Chin
- Patrick John Hurley
- Timothy Carhart
- Curt Dempster
- Shirley Kaplan
- Lázaro Pérez
- John Hoyt
- Gary Ray
- Gary Binkow
- Michael Bramon
- Joyce Griffen
- Paul Austin
- Richard S. Lowy
- Donna Ritchie
- Kim Chan
- Michael Badalucco
- Elie J. Boubli
- Adele Bertei
- Peter Castellotti
- Wende Dasteel
- Steve Eidel
- Michael Kaufman
- Ilene Kristen
- Carol Leifer
- Richard Portnow
- Isabel García Lorca
- Tim Ransom
- Gilda Torterello
- Stanley Burns
- Sandy Dell
- Robert Dahdah
- Edward Galland
- Kevin Harris
- David Kellman
- Harsh Nayyar
- Robert Shafran
- Frank Stellato
- Thomas Brogan
- John Spacely
Director
- Susan Seidelman
Producers
- Midge Sanford
- Sarah Pillsbury
