Desperately Seeking Susan
Short description
Roberta Glass is a New Jersey housewife whose comfortable marriage leaves her restless. When she notices a personal advertisement from a man searching for a woman named Susan, she becomes curious about the stranger at the centre of it. She follows the ads as they continue, then travels into New York to watch Susan for herself, drawn to the other woman's free and impulsive way of living. Roberta's attempt to step into Susan's world pulls her into a tangle of mistaken identity and danger.
Susan Seidelman directed the film, which followed her debut Smithereens by three years; Leora Barish wrote the screenplay, and Sarah Pillsbury and Midge Sanford produced. Rosanna Arquette plays Roberta and Madonna plays Susan, with Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum, Robert Joy and Laurie Metcalf among the cast. Made for about 5 million dollars, it took roughly 27 million worldwide, a strong return. On IMDb it holds 6.2 from around 29,000 votes, while on TMDB it has 6.1 from a much smaller 538 votes, and a critics' rating of 6.7 from 37 reviews places it somewhat above the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- One of the film's sponsors, Camel, which had planned to invest $5,000 in its production, changed its plans and withdrew its sponsorship due to a character's line to Rosanna Arquette's character about her needing to quit smoking.
- Upon first reading the script, Rosanna Arquette stated that she would like to play the titular role, but it turned out that the producers were offering her the role of Roberta.
- Initially, little attention was paid to what Madonna was doing and how she was acting in the film. By the end of filming, nine weeks later, the filmmakers had to hire security to keep fans away from the set, as the album “Like a Virgin” had been released during that time and had a bombshell effect, and Madonna was already a megastar.
- Filming took place during a period when Madonna was trying to lose weight, or rather, not gain weight. If the script required her to eat something, she would spit out the food she held in her mouth after each take, without swallowing it.
- Triplets dressed alike near the publishing house where Madonna was placing an ad were not in the script and ended up there purely by chance. Director Susan Seidelman noticed them on the street and decided to film them. These three brothers were separated at birth and found themselves in the public eye when they finally met as adults. Later, Tim Wardle filmed a documentary about them called “Three Identical Strangers.”
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