DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN

USA | 1985 | 35mm | 104 min.
Director: Susan Seidelman
Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn
Roberta (Arquette), the bored wife of a NJ hot tub salesman, becomes infatuated with young couple Susan (Madonna) and Jimmy (Robert Joy), whom she discovers through a newspaper personals section. Bopped on the head, Roberta wakes up thinking she is the headstrong and hedonistic Susan. A full persona swap takes place when Roberta’s husband hires the real Susan to find his missing wife! “What might have been a conventional Hollywood farce about amnesia and switched identities has been given razzle-dazzle treatment by independent NY director Seidelman…delightful” (Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic). 35mm print courtesy of Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research.