Desperately Seeking Susan

1985 · Directed by Susan Seidelman

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.

comedy drama romance

Cast: Will Patton, John Turturro, Rosanna Arquette, Aidan Quinn, Giancarlo Esposito, Timothy Carhart, Steven Wright, Laurie Metcalf, Anna Levine Thomson, Richard Edson

Rating: 6.058/10 from 354 votes