I've been trying to remember when I first saw this movie. It must have been back in the early 90's. I remember having this obsession with Madonna and constantly wandering off to the Video Store to rent this and Who's That Girl (1987). This one stuck. I'm sure its a combination of the Madonna style, Rosanna Arquette's average-girl-to-hero story, and Aidan Quinn's amazing blue eyes. Plus I was a young girl on the verge of Teendom. Desperately Seeking Susan with its two strong female leads was just asking for my obsession.
I watch this movie so often thats its hard to describe how it makes me feel now days. I don't flash back to my teen years as I watch it. I just feel like me. Maybe that's it. This movie is just a part of my psyche and its here to stay. Plus, I'd kill for Madonna's bedazzle heeled boots and pyramid jacket today. The fashion has all come round again!
Its a simple tale really. Average house wife dreams of better life, accidentally gets a bump on the head and gets amnesia. Then is mistaken for trouble making free-spirited New Yorker named Susan. Meanwhile a really bad dude is after some priceless Egyptian earrings which it just so happens each of the girls have one of. Do you follow? Anyway, what could go wrong?
Fantastic to say the least, and all set on the wonderful stage that is New York City in 1985. Oh how I dreamed of New York City. I finally took a pilgrimage there in 2007 and thought of Desperately Seeking Susan the whole time.
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