Desperately Seeking Susan is a
1985 film directed by
Susan Seidelman and starring
Rosanna Arquette and
Madonna. This movie was rated
PG-13 in the
USA &
15 in the UK
Plot
Arquette plays Roberta, an unfulfilled
suburban housewife living in
Fort Lee, New Jersey, who is fascinated with a woman she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the
personals section of a
New York City tabloid. This fascination reaches a peak when one such ad with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan" proposes a rendezvous in
Battery Park with the man who regularly seeks her. Roberta goes to Battery Park too, and gets a glimpse of the woman (played by
Madonna) whose life so fascinates her. In a series of events involving
mistaken identity,
amnesia, and other
farcical elements Roberta goes from voyeur to participant in an
Alice in Wonderland-style plot,
ostensibly motivated by the search for a pair of stolen Egyptian earrings.