Susan SeidelmanFilmography

Born:: December 11, 1952 in Abington, PA
Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: 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...Read More

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Boynton Beach Club

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Dyan Cannon, Brenda Vaccaro, Sally Kellerman, Joseph Bologna, Len Cariou

Synopsis: 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 Susan Seidelman. Jack (Len Cariou) married his high school sweetheart when they were still in their teens, and when she dies Read More

3/17/06
Stella: Paper Route

Crew: Director

2005
Stella: Office Party

Crew: Director

2005
In the Company of Women

Actors: Allison Anders, Lisa Cholodenko, Patricia Clarkson, Jodie Foster, Shari Frilot

Synopsis: 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 introduction to the major women of independent filmmaking, starting in the 1980s. It includes commentary from directors Allison Anders, Lisa Cholodenko Read More

2004
The Ranch

Crew: Director

Actors: Amy Madigan, Nicki Micheaux

Synopsis: 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 that operates under the careful watch of state health inspectors (who insist on weekly medical checkups) and the Read More

2004
Gaudi Afternoon

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Judy Davis, Marcia Gay Harden, Lili Taylor, Juliette Lewis

Synopsis: 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 herself stranded in Spain, where she's found temporary work translating books into English. However, Cassandra's limited Read More

3/14/03
Power and Beauty

Crew: Director

Actors: Natasha Henstridge, Kevin Anderson, Peter Friedman, John Ralston

Synopsis: 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 Jack Kennedy (Kevin Anderson, who played also Bobby Kennedy in Hoffa). The story is told in flashback, from Exner's point of view. In Read More

2002
A Cooler Climate

Crew: Director

Actors: Sally Field, Judy Davis, Winston Rekert

Synopsis: 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 Field) in unstable financial circumstances, forcing her to accept a demeaning job as live-in housekeeper to the family of Read More

1999
Sex and the City: The Power of Female Sex

Crew: Director

Synopsis: 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 evening with a gift of 1,000 dollars, leaving Carrie with very mixed feelings. Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) is still dating Skipper (Ben Weber Read More

1998
Sex and the City: Sex and the City

Crew: Director

Actors: Chris Noth

Synopsis: 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 (Kristin Davis), and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), on the occasion of Miranda's 30th birthday, that they should try having sex like men -- just for Read More

1998
The Barefoot Executive

Crew: Director

Actors: Jason London

Synopsis: 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 when he discovers a pet chimpanzee with an uncanny knack for picking which TV shows will be hits or misses. Susan Seidelman directed. Read More

1995
Tales of Erotica

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Arliss Howard, Cynda Williams, Kathleen Wilhoite, John Toles-Bey, Mira Sorvino

Synopsis: 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," was directed by Bob Rafelson and involves an encounter between a bathroom fixtures salesman and a customer who comes Read More

1994
Dutch Master

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1993
The Night We Never Met

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Annabella Sciorra, Kevin Anderson, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Justine Bateman

Synopsis: 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, Brian McVeigh (Kevin Anderson) doesn't want to give up his old apartment, where he can swill beer, scarf pizza, and be Read More

1993
Confessions of a Suburban Girl

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: 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 of Philadelphia. This autobiographical documentary takes its place alongside similar efforts by film directors John Boorman and Nagisa Oshima Read More

1992
She-Devil

Crew: Co-producer, Director

Actors: Meryl Streep, Roseanne, Ed Begley, Jr., Linda Hunt, Sylvia Miles

Synopsis: 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 philandering husband. Mary Fisher (Meryl Streep) is a best-selling romance novelist of the manner of Danielle Steel or Jackie Collins Read More

12/8/89
Cookie

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Peter Falk, Dianne Wiest, Emily Lloyd, Michael Vincente Gazzo, Brenda Vaccaro

Synopsis: 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 Emily Lloyd. Lloyd is Cookie Capisco, the daughter of mobster Dino Capisco (Peter Falk), who has just finished thirteen years in Read More

8/23/89
Making Mr. Right

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Ann Magnuson, John Malkovich, Glenne Headly, Ben Masters, Laurie Metcalf

Synopsis: 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 in Chicago. Malkovich stars as Dr. Jeff Peters, a scientist for the Chemtech Corporation who has invented an affable robotic Read More

4/10/87
50 Years of Action!

Actors: Stanley Ackerman, Woody Allen, John A. Alonzo, Warren Beatty

Synopsis: One of the few documentaries to shine a spotlight on directors in Hollywood, this informative film sketches out the 50-year history of the Directors Guild of America. Formed at a time when people were still fighting for unions in the United States, the guild also had its problems when the studios Read More

1986
Desperately Seeking Susan

Crew: Director

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum, Robert Joy

Synopsis: A petite New Jersey housewife finds self-fulfillment through amnesia in this new wave comedy of errors set in New York's hip '80s downtown scene. Rosanna Arquette stars as Roberta, who turns to the personals for vicarious thrills after her four-year marriage to staid hot tub salesman Gary (Mark Read More

1985
Room 666

Actors: Jean-Luc Godard, Steven Spielberg, Michelangelo Antonioni, Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Synopsis: In this unusual documentary based on a series of identical questions addressed to world-famous directors such as Werner Herzog, Steven Spielberg, and Jean-Luc Godard, director Wim Wenders placed each of his colleagues one-by-one in a single room, gave them one reel (11 minutes) of time to look Read More

1984
Smithereens

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Susan Berman, Richard Hell, Roger Jett, Nada Despotovich

Synopsis: Written, produced, directed, and edited by Susan Seidelman in true student film fashion, Smithereens is the story of Wren (Susan Berman), an independent spirit from New Jersey trying to self-promote herself into the New York punk scene. She meets Paul (Brad Rijn), who ran away from Montana and Read More

1982