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She-Devil
Why this pick
Shared genres: Comedy.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1985 1h 44m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Movies like
Desperately Seeking Susan
Comedy
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) is an unfulfilled suburban housewife living in Fort Lee, New Jersey, who is fascinated by a woman she knows about only by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of a New York City tabloid. Her fascination reaches a peak when an ad, with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan," seeks a rendezvous in The Battery (Manhattan) with the man who regularly seeks her (Jim, played by Robert Joy). Roberta goes to Battery Park, too, sees the woman (Madonna (entertainer)), and in a series of events involving mistaken identity, amnesia, and other farcical elements, goes from voyeur to participant in an ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''–style plot, ostensibly motivated by the search for a pair of stolen Egyptian earrings. With both of them trying to find Roberta, her husband Gary (Mark Blum) encounters the wild Susan.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Madonna
Susan
Rosanna Arquette
Roberta Glass
Aidan Quinn
Dez
Robert Joy
Jim
Will Patton
Wayne Nolan
Laurie Metcalf
Leslie Glass
John Turturro
Ray
Giancarlo Esposito
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