Desperately Seeking Susan Page #3

Synopsis: Bored Roberta spots a regular personal ad in the paper titled 'Desperately Seeking Susan'. She heads off to New York, following one of the ads, and finds Susan. When Susan sells her jacket, Roberta - trying to emulate her mystery ad writer - buys the jacket and wears it. Little does she know someone is looking for the jacket - and its owner...
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Susan Seidelman
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
71
Rotten Tomatoes:
85%
PG-13
Year:
1985
104 min
$27,400,000
835 Views


bit and then in goes...

Hello, Roberta.

Hello, Julia.

Sorry, girls. I can't

stay for dinner.

Some guy from West

Germany's got 1500 tubs...

he can't get through customs.

I gotta go have dinner

with him in town.

It just happened. I'm sorry.

You forgive me?

Looks interesting too.

- Get a good deal on the radio?

- Radio?

- Car radio. You just came from the city.

- Oh, my God, the radio.

- You forgot the radio?

- No!

Yeah, right, I guess I did.

You could have said you didn't

want dinner. I had to rush!

You said you didn't go anywhere.

What are you wearing?

A jacket. It used to

belong to Jimi Hendrix.

You bought a used jacket?

What, are we poor?

What's going on here?

Roberta, I gotta run! I'm late.

We'll talk later, all right?

All right, we'll talk later?

Jimi Hendrix, huh?

You sold it?

I had a key that was important.

I got my sh*t inside a locker.

- I sold it!

- I'll leave you my name and number.

Good goin', stranger.

Well, what f***in' stranger?!

Festival seating.

That means Portosans.

Portosans means pissing with flies.

I'm not gonna piss with flies.

You guys can piss in bottles.

What the hell is this? Woodstock?

- Projection.

- Dez, it's me. Jim.

Hold on a second.

Jesus Christ!

I'm stuck in Buffalo and I need

a favour. It's about Susan.

See, now some guy she met in Atlantic

City got pushed out of a hotel window.

This sounds wild.

I'm sorry I missed it.

This is serious, Dez.

And now some guy's run an ad to meet

her in Battery Park, signed "a stranger".

It sounds weird.

Could you just go down there...

and make sure she's OK?

Jim, Victoria split on me last night.

I'm in a shitty mood.

I'm not in the mood for being

a boy scout right now.

Come on, Dez.

It'll take you half an hour.

- Come on!

- Give me a chance here. One second.

- She's got to meet him at 4 o'clock.

- That's in less than an hour!

Jim, I got a job here, you know!

This one favour.

Even if I could get someone

to fill in for me...

I don't even know

what she looks like.

Look, you can't miss her.

She's incredibly pretty,

blonde hair... medium height.

And she's got this green

and gold jacket...

with a pyramid with an eye on top

like a dollar bill. You can't miss it.

- All right, you owe me one.

- Great. Thanks, Dez, I appreciate it.

OK, yeah. Bye.

I lived in New York all my life.

We used to have Chinese restaurants,

Italian restaurants.

Now you have these sushi restaurants.

Everyone goes for sushi.

Sushi... I hate the stuff.

Although, I tell you,

I had some the other day.

I took it home, I cooked it,

it wasn't bad. It tasted like fish.

$9.20.

Here, keep the change.

Whoa! Hey! What is that? Hey, lady!

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