Susan Seidelman Movies
American filmmaker Susan Seidelman majored in art and fashion design at Drexel University. She worked at an independent TV station in Philadelphia before enrolling at NYU's film school. Her feminist-oriented student films, made between 1976 and 1977, won several awards and plenty of industry attention. Seidelman's first feature, the independently produced Smithereens (1983), made very... (read more) little headway in mainstream theaters, but was a hit on the festival circuit. On the strength of Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Seidelman was lauded as one of Hollywood's few "bankable" female directors; the film's success was probably due more to the supporting performance of Madonna than to its director. Seidelman's next two films, Making Mr Right (1987) and Cookie (1989), failed to match the standard set by Desperately Seeking Susan. In 1989's She-Devil, Seidelman attempted to do for Roseanne Barr what she had done for Madonna -- - that is, transform Roseanne into a viable film personality. But She Devil did nothing for anyone, least of all Susan Seidelman, whose much-vaunted bankability was injured. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
The Hot Flashes
2013
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Musical Chairs
PG13 2012
A Latino dancer from the Bronx helps a privileged woman from the Upper East Side rediscover her love of dancing after a tragic accident renders her wheelchair-dependent in this...
Boynton Beach Club
R 2005
A handful of men and women "of a certain age" pick up the pieces of their lives and look for new love after the loss of their mates in this comedy drama from writer-director...
Stella: Office Party
2005
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Stella: Paper Route
2005
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The Ranch
R 2004
Susan Seidelman directed this made-for-cable comedy drama about a few days in the lives of a group of "working girls" in Reno, NV. "The Ranch" is a legally operated brothel...
In the Company of Women
2004
Gini Reticker and Lesli Klainberg direct the 74-minute documentary In the Company of Women, a production of the Independent Film Channel. The film offers an...
Power and Beauty
R 2002
Beauty and Power tells the sordid tale of Judith Exner (Natasha Henstridge), who claimed to have dated Frank Sinatra (John Ralston) and to have been the mistress of...
Gaudi Afternoon
R 2001
An American abroad finds herself falling in with an eccentric group of fellow expatriates in Spain in this comedy. Cassandra (Judy Davis) is a nomadic American who finds...
A Cooler Climate
1999
Susan Seidelman directs this critically acclaimed made-for-cable TV movie based on the novel by Zena Collier. A nasty divorce leaves one-time housewife Iris Prue (Sally...
Sex and the City: Sex and the City
1998
In the first episode of the HBO comedy series Sex and the City, Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) suggests to her friends Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte...
Sex and the City: The Power of Female Sex
1998
Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) is a bit strapped for cash when she finds herself dating a well-known French architect, who decides to show his gratitude for a pleasant...
The Barefoot Executive
1995
Jason London, Terri Ivens, and Chris Elliot star in this remake of the Disney classic. A low-level television executive finds himself climbing the corporate ladder...
Tales of Erotica
R 1994
This German film consists of six separate vignettes each created by a different international director, each challenged to create brief erotic scenarios. The first, named "Wet,"...
The Night We Never Met
R 1993
Two people fall in love without meeting -- and discover a wealth of complications when they try to get together -- in this romantic comedy. Even though he's about to be married,...
Dutch Master
1993
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Confessions of a Suburban Girl
1992
In this documentary, director Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan, She-Devil) recounts her experiences in her teen years growing up with bad vision in the suburbs...
Cookie
R 1989
Directed by Susan Seidelman and written by Alice Arlen and Nora Ephron, Cookie comes across as an inconsequential piece of fluff, bolstered by a quirky performance by...
She-Devil
PG13 1989
Susan Seidelman directed this loose adaptation of Fay Weldon's novel The Life and Loves of a She-Devil concerning the extreme revenge exacted by a dumpy housewife on her...
Making Mr. Right
PG13 1987
This sci-fi comedy from Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) director Susan Seidelman stars John Malkovich along with several other actors from his Steppenwolf Theatre troupe...