Desperately Seeking Susan

March. 29,1985      PG-13
Rating:
6.1
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Rosanna Arquette as  Roberta Glass
Madonna as  Susan
Aidan Quinn as  Dez
Mark Blum as  Gary Glass
Robert Joy as  Jim
Laurie Metcalf as  Leslie Glass
Anna Thomson as  Crystal
Will Patton as  Wayne Nolan
Steven Wright as  Larry Stillman D.D.S.
John Turturro as  Ray

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