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In its own sketchy, asymmetrical way, Desperately Seeking Susan is an engaging variation on the classic screwball comedy-of-liberation. A restless New Jersey housewife, Roberta Glass (played by Rosanna Arquette), gives up her microwave and her hot-tub peddling yuppie husband, and ends up in the arms of a distracted projectionist at the Bleeker Street Cinema.
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DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (Orion Pictures)
by Mitchell Cohen
In its own sketchy, asymmetrical way, Desperately Seeking Susan is an engaging variation on the classic screwball comedy-of-liberation. A restless New Jersey housewife, Roberta Glass (played by Rosanna Arquette), gives up her microwave and her hot-tub peddling yuppie husband, and ends up in the arms of a distracted projectionist at the Bleeker Street Cinema. The catalyst for this journey is the eponymous Susan, a lady who lives by her wits and whims, casually lifting valuable remembrances (such as “Nefertiti earrings from the Cairo collection”) from her temporary amours. Susan is incarnated by Madonna, looking such as comfortable in her underthings on the big screen as she does on the tube.