Desperately Seeking Susan

Name: Desperately Seeking Susan
Director: Susan Seidelman
Released: 1985
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum, Robert Joy

1985 · 104 MIN · IMDB 6.1 · 27,317 VOTES · DIR. Susan Seidelman

Overview

A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,310 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:10 (§ "One Fine Day" by The Chiffons)

00:03:19 # Burning hard

00:10:11 It's gone for ever.

00:14:25 Shit!

00:19:57 # All I'm askin'

00:24:49 Good goin', stranger.

00:28:36 - I got some Sugar Babies. - No, thank you.

00:32:25 I hope it's filled with something good.

00:38:03 I believe some of that stuff is mine.

00:41:21 That looks great. Any word from Roberta yet?

00:46:18 What have you got on? Some sort of disguise?

00:49:21 A double feature?

00:52:38 ...like on a dollar bill.

00:56:46 Bow!

00:59:49 Who's Meeker?

01:04:44 (doves coo)

01:08:15 ...all time comes from a single point in the universe?

01:11:49 What?

01:16:17 - What? - Didn't you ever read this?

01:20:09 She needs me, Dez.

01:24:01 I wanna see who this fuckin' stranger is.

01:28:50 Bravo!

01:32:00 I looked at you. You look ridiculous.

01:36:48 # Boy, you've got to prove

Cast & Characters

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

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,310

Dialogue density12.6 lines / min

First line00:00:10

Final line01:36:48

Production Record

DirectorSusan Seidelman

LanguageEnglish

Budget$4,500,000

Revenue$27,399,597

IMDb votes27,317