This is a really amazing picture. I could never guess where the plot would go in the next scene, and it's phenomenally written to keep me both laughing and on the edge of my seat for the whole film. Susan Siedelman definitely brings her own magical look on New York, and her direction is wonderfully unique. Rosanna Arquette gives one of her better performances in this film, and Madonna does a great job playing Susan. This film is beautifully shot too, with Siedelman coloring most scenes with stunning colored lights. Desperately Seeking Susan is hilarious, thrilling, beautiful, unique, and a film that would be hard not to enjoy.

I know that Desperately Seeking Susan was marketed as a vehicle for Madonna’s stardom, but it really shouldn’t have been. This is Rosanna Arquette’s movie. She is the star and Madonna just kind of comes and goes as she pleases. And while they try to portray Madonna’s character, Susan, as a free-spirited bohemian, she just comes across as arrogant and annoying. I would hate to have someone like Susan in my life. Arquette is believable as the naïve character Roberta, but the story is really flimsy. It might have worked better if they would have made Desperately Seeking Susan a comedy instead of a drama.

I watched this movie for the first time a couple of days ago. It was a fun throw back to the 80’s. So many miscommunications in a world without cell phones and social media. The story was kind of cute. I really enjoyed Aidan Quinn in it especially. I think Patricia Arquette did a great job too. Madonna was fine. It definitely was 80’s weird in parts. Like you know the kind of weirdness that was present in the 90’s. Like really random, strange things that are kind of messy and eclectic. It’s not a bad thing. Kind of charming actually. It’s what I love about the 80’s.

A movie that must’ve worked better in the time it was released, Desperately Seeking Susan’s strange script and unbelievable story make it less enjoyable for today’s audience.

A really good 80s comedy caper. Not the funniest but has a light film and quite a tight plot for a screwballish film. Madonna and Arquette are both very good. Watched on Amazon Prime.

This movie is a great snapshot of the '80s. It's the best movie Madonna ever did. She's essentially playing a version of herself. This is early Madonna before she became the Madonna. Great cast all around including Aiden Quinn and of course Rosanna Arquette

One of my favorite movies! It's suspenseful and mysterious, with lots of plot twists and characters. Very good movie

A fun, lighthearted, and entertaining movie.

Such a fun 80s, romp!! Rosanna Arquette, Aidan Quinn, Laurie Metcalf and Madonna are killer in this!

I remember when the media hyped everybody into believing this was a great movie. When I got around, actually watching it in the movie theater, I realized Madonna would never have an acting career. Nice to see that finally the rest of society is taking the pennies off their eyes and see there is nothing to see.

worst movie ever made

Great 80's rom com with a twist. Madonna at her best.

Susan Siedelman directs one of Madonna's first films along with Rosanna Arquette a comedy about living a happy life using more than one woman's mind Arquette plays Roberta who wants to be just like Madonna's Susan in a newspaper ad living a vicarious, care-free existence after a knock on her head Roberta 'becomes' Susan opening a whole new side to her all the while during this confusion someone is after Susan after a pair of valuable Egyptian earrings are stolen which she happens to have with her Roberta lives the new-life as Susan while the real Susan tries to get a handle on how out of control her life has gotten thanks to this mixup Mark Blum as Roberta's husband searches for her as he too finds out certain things about her he never knew sometimes it takes a smack to our noggins telling us to wake up to find out what we actually want out of life instead of settling down for the ordinary, safe, plain lifestyle even something as a case of mistaken identity can change things in so many variations I love Madonna's on-screen appeal as well as some of her 1980's tunes, Arquette is very likable as Roberta switching from one mindset to the next but also discovering who she truly is, true there's not a lot of laugh-out-loud moments but it is gigglish seeing this woman go from one thing to the next where she hasn't gotten a clue how deep this other person she admires has gotten into it's maybe true too that so many of us are desperately seeking the actual person we want to be like this Susan character to be more than what we're given two likable female leads with a simple script for a pleasant watch

Actually a very good movie with some solid writing 3.6

A great trip down memory lane to the 1980s, where things were, well, better. This was a time when a struggling cinema guy has a classic New York apartment with a blue door in the middle for some reason; the Mustang 5.0 hadn't rusted away; people really sued those lockers at the Port Authority. It's ostensibly a vehicle for Madonna in the great "Lucky Star" period, all cute lip curling and manufactured bubblegum trouble, but it has something in Rosanna Arquette's journey as frustrated housewife to bohemian and it's packaged into a gentle farce that doesn't overstay it's welcome.

Enjoyable frolic -- great fun

It's no wonder I skipped this movie during the 80's. It was so terrible and nothing like Who's That Girl which featured Madonna as well. The characters (mainly Arquette) get on your last good nerve and you often wonder if the writers were really that bored writing this garbage. The whole movie floats around based on Roberta hitting her head on a lamp post, losing everything she has while doing so and forgetting who she is entirely. Let me put it this way, if she hadn't had hit her head, there would be no movie. Lame. Even the way she hits her head is lame. By the way, you don't see much of Madonna either (which is probably best in order to avoid negative criticism). Flat story, no real premise, horrible acting all around and a main character (Arquette) who's so dumb, every other word that mutters out of her mouth is "I don't know". Throughout the film you're wondering, "Why is she stalking Madonna? Why is she married to a guy she barely knows? What happened to her at the end? And why oh why am I watching this mess?! Blah.

got very deeply invested in what the hell was going to happen next, but then i got distracted by how hot aidan quinn was......yummy

I find the qualified nature of the reviews one reads of this film to be absolutely incomprehensible. Is it because Madonna is in it? Get over it. It is one of the best comedies I have ever seen. I have watched it certainly 10 times and probably 20. It remains flawless. Yes, Madonna has nor made another decent film, but in this one, she plays her role brilliantly.

Felt like this is hours I could never retrieve back