Fresh
All of this is cause for consistent smiling and a few outright laughs, without ever building to complete comedy.
Variety Staff, Variety
Desperately Seeking Susan
Every man is desperate to have her. One woman is desperate to be her. But someone is desperate to kill her. If they can figure out who she is.
1985 · 1h 44m · PG-13
Comedy, Crime
Directed by
Susan Seidelman
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Desperately Seeking Susan
Overview
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
86%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The film acquires a pleasant, syncopated rhythm as it bounces from one unlikely event to another.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
It has its moments, and many of them involve the different kinds of special appeal that Arquette and Madonna are able to generate.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
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.
Time Out
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