Desperately Seeking Susan
Movie • 1985 • Comedy
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Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan" proposes a rendezvous. Roberta goes too, and in a series of events involving amnesia and mistaken identity, steps into Susan's life.
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Is there domestic violence?
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An amnesiac is unwittingly convinced she is someone she is not.
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Roberta stalks Susan through news paper adds ' she is not being malicious she's just encredably bored but she is still being creepy
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Not really, no one’s drunk, only pseudoSusan gets a tiny bit tipsy
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Two characters smoke cannabis.
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There are doves and a duck used in a magic show. They do not appear to be harmed, but a cage is shown that is supposed to contain the doves.
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The cat is safe!
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There’s a cute cat that pops by Dez’s but nothing ever happens to him beyond cutely lapping up milk:)
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In aforementioned b-movie.
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Is there cannibalism?
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A move theater is playing a b-movie film about mutant cannibals; we see a scene briefly.
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A minor character is said to have fallen to his death as read about in the papers. An accompanying, non-graphic, photo is shown.
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Not really, except for pretend in a magic show illusion where a woman is sawed in half.
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A character is taken hostage.
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Gary admits to having an affair with an off-screen character. Roberta cheats on Gary too. At first she doesn't remember being married, but she does continue to cheat when she regains her memory.
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Said chase ends in a capture that is jarring.
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Hot tubs are seen in use.
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A moment of panic or two.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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A character is a magician's assistant and panics when she is in a saw-in-half contraption.
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A fairly tame joke by a comedian that a man 'from Queens' implies his parents are homosexuals.
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A man watches a woman getting dressed (bare breasts are seen); all other sexuality is dialogue specific.
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Only a minor one. Susan hits the rear bumper of another car as she attempts to parallel park.
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An antagonist brandishes a gun. No one is killed.
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