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This year marks the 40th anniversary of Desperately Seeking Susan, the movie that helped Madonna go from a singer to a Hollywood sensation almost overnight. It’s one of several classic movies that arrived on Max this month. This film is also our top choice for the one (HBO) Max movie that you have to watch in January.
Susan Seidelman directed this rom-com from a script by Leora Barish, and it’s far from conventional. Susan (Madonna) is the title character, but she’s not the main character. Instead, the focus falls largely on Roberta Glass (Rosanna Arquette), a woman in a loveless marriage who becomes obsessed with Susan’s public affair with Jim Dandy (Robert Joy), as relayed in the newspaper’s personal ads. That obsession sends Roberta on a wild journey of her own that forces her to reinvent herself as she tries to
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