Susan ... desperately wanted

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Movie
German title Susan ... desperately wanted
Original title Desperately Seeking Susan
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1985
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Susan Seidelman
script Leora Barish
production Sarah Pillsbury ,
Midge Sanford
music Thomas Newman
camera Edward Lachman
cut Andrew Mondshein
occupation

Susan… Desperately Wanted (original title Desperately Seeking Susan ) is an American comedy film that was produced in 1985. Directed by Susan Seidelman .

action

The frustrated housewife Roberta Glass is married to the bathtub salesman Gary. Out of boredom, she reads personals, including one in which the musician Jim is "desperately looking for his girlfriend Susan". She arrives for Jim and Susan's meeting in New York City, and then follows Susan. When Susan decided to swap her jacket for new boots, Roberta bought the jacket. She finds a locker key in it and now places an advertisement herself.

When Jim goes on a trip, he asks his friend Dez to take care of Susan and describes Susan's jacket as a identification mark. Susan arrives at the meeting point by taxi, but cannot pay for it and is arrested by the police.

Dez sees Roberta with Susan's jacket being molested by a stranger. Roberta hits a lamppost with the back of her head and temporarily loses her memory. Dez, who thinks Roberta is Susan, helps her and takes her to his apartment.

Dez finds the locker key with Roberta, and they open it in the hope that Roberta remembers the sight of her belongings. In it you will find two antique earrings and a photograph of a nightclub between items of clothing. There Roberta gets a job as an assistant to a magician. She is then followed by an unknown gangster who wants to get back the earrings that the real Susan stole.

Meanwhile, Susan makes the acquaintance of Gary and wraps him around her finger. They are looking for Roberta. She now remembers and is arrested by the police for prostitution . However , after a bail deposited by Dez , she was released.

It finally comes to a showdown when Gary and Susan and the returned Jim meet with Dez in the nightclub with Roberta and the unknown criminal. When the latter realizes that he was after the wrong person, he threatens Susan, but is knocked down by Roberta with a bottle. Eventually Roberta separates from Gary and goes to Dez. In the end, Roberta takes over some behavior from Susan. After the last scene, a newspaper is shown with a picture of Roberta and Susan. They hand over the jewelry that Susan had stolen during a press conference.

background

The film, shot in New York City and Atlantic City, cost about $ 4.5 million. Originally intended for an audience from 17 years of age (US age rating R-rated ), the film was shortened to achieve a PG-13 rating (from 13 years of age) and thus to appeal to Madonna's young fans. The film grossed approximately $ 27.4 million for the producers at the US box office.

synchronization

The German synchronization was commissioned by Berliner Synchron , Arne Elsholtz was responsible for the dialogue direction and the German dialogue book .

role actor speaker
Roberta Glass Rosanna Arquette Judith Brandt
Susan Madonna Sabina Trooger
Dec Aidan Quinn Arne Elsholtz
Gary Glass Mark Blum Thomas Danneberg
Jim Robert Joy Christian Tramitz
Leslie Glass Laurie Metcalf Uta Hallant
Crystal Anna Levine Hansi Jochmann
Wayne Nolan Will Patton Ivar Combrinck
Ian Peter Maloney Wolfgang Spier
Larry Stillman Steven Wright Joachim Tennstedt
Ray John Turturro Michael Nowka

Reviews

Roger Ebert praised some moments of the film in the Chicago Sun-Times , the characters as well as the presence of Rosanna Arquette and Madonna. The plot is "confusing" and makes the biggest weakness of the film. The lexicon of international film describes the film as “lively cinematic pleasure”.

Awards

Rosanna Arquette won the BAFTA Award in 1986 and was nominated for the Golden Globe . Susan Seidelman was nominated for the César in 1986. Risa Bramon Garcia and Billy Hopkins were nominated for the 1986 Casting Society of America Award .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William D. Romanowski: Pop Culture Wars: Religion and the Role of Entertainment in American Life , Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2006, p. 267
  2. ↑ boxofficemojo.com
  3. ↑ Synchronkartei.de
  4. ^ Roger Ebert : film review. In: Chicago Sun-Times , March 29, 1985
  5. ↑ Susan ... desperately wanted. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used