A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.
Directed by Susan Seidelman
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Rank
#37 in 1985·#3992 overall
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IMDB
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Letterboxd
3.4 / 5
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Cast
Rosanna Arquette
Roberta Glass
Madonna
Susan
Aidan Quinn
Dez
Mark Blum
Gary Glass
Robert Joy
Jim
Laurie Metcalf
Leslie Glass
Anna Thomson
Crystal
Will Patton
Wayne Nolan
Steven Wright
Larry Stillman D.D.S.
John Turturro
Ray
Giancarlo Esposito
Street Vendor
Richard Hell
Bruce Meeker
Crew
Susan Seidelman
Director
Thomas Newman
Original Music Composer
Andrew Mondshein
Editor
Edward Lachman
Director of Photography
Todd M. Thaler
Additional Casting
Santo Loquasto
Production Design
Risa Bramon Garcia
Casting
Popular Reviews
229 reviews
Leah Nicolson
10.0★ · 04/17/26
This movie is so ahead of its time for being 80s
This movie is so ahead of its time for being 80s
Alex Prendergast
6.0★ · 04/28/26
Good vibes and impressive mise-en-scéne especially due to the lighting, but it’s such a needlessly complicated plot for such an overall simple movie 😭
Good vibes and impressive mise-en-scéne especially due to the lighting, but it’s such a needlessly complicated plot for such an overall simple movie 😭
