Desperately Seeking Susan (DVD)

Now I am probably biased about this film as I am a huge Madonna fan and Into the Groove still remains my favourite pop song as it just makes me feel so upbeat and alive. Many people and the critics slated this film saying that the acting and the plot is poor and it was just a way to get promotion for Madonna as she has the starring role ( along with Rosanna Arquette) and her single Into the Groove is even playing in the nightclub scene. It was made in 1985 and it has to be said that Madonna looks like herself in the way she dresses,her hair and make up, and the character she plays could well be herself, but maybe this is why I love this film, as I ...  Read the complete review

This was the first film to geature Madonna and to be honest it is probably her best one as well, mind you given some of the turkeys she has appeared in that is no great shakes, even former hubby Guy Ritchie lost his midas directorial touch when he encountered Madge. I guess this film fits into a sort of comedy drama of sorts with a bit of romance thrown in as well, the real star of the film those is Rosanna Arquette who plays a bored suburban housewife with a slimy cheating husband, she is called Roberta and she likes to read the classified ads, she is obsessed with an advert that appears every now and again which begins Desperately Seeking Susan and then ...  Read the complete review

I remember watching this film loads when i was younger and i have to admit that i absolutely loved it. I must have seen it over twenty times and have yet to get bored when im watching it. If you have never heard of Desperately Seeking Susan, it is a film starring Madonna and Rosanna Arquette and it came to our screens in 1985. It was directed by Susan Seidelman and the running time is 104 minutes long. The story centres around character Roberta, a housewife who feels bored and discontented with her life. She becomes fascinated by a woman she reads about in the personals section of the New York Tabloids. She replys ...  Read the complete review

Most of those contemporary eighties movies that you revisit nowadays feel like lightweight affairs (with the exception of Risky Business and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) but many of them still retain their charm, and Seidelman’s film is no exception. Notable for making Rosanna Arquette a star and for having Madonna play herself, the bland and unoriginal storyline is made appealing by two good headline performances but let down by weaker supporting roles (Like, why do eighties villains have bleach blonde hair and act gay? Reagan propaganda perhaps??). The ending feels chopped and extremely rushed (proven to be correct if you have the DVD version) and many ...  Read the complete review