Desperately Seeking Susan, the popular 1985 movie starring Madonna and Rosanna Arquette, directed by Abington native Susan Seidelman, was added to the National Film Registry, writes  Kristin Hunt for Philly Voice.

The movie is part of the latest batch of culturally significant films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry.

The comedy revolves around a case of mistaken identity, as a restless New Jersey housewife accidentally gets swept up into the life of a New York bohemian grifter.

Desperately Seeking Susan was the Montgomery County’s director’s second movie. Her debut, Smithereens, came out in 1982.

Desperately Seeking Susan was filmed in late 1984 in downtown Manhattan and is now considered to be a portrait of a bygone city.

“New York was still coming out of the 1970s bankruptcy crisis,” said Seidelman in a 2010 interview. “Nothing was getting renovated or repaired. There was no money. So it still had that grit.”

Seidelman also directed She-Devil, the Meryl Streep and Roseanne Barr comedy, and the pilot episode of Sex and the City.

Read more about Desperately Seeking Susan in the Philly Voice.

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