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Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)

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Reviews Counted: 19

Fresh: 15

Rotten:4

Average Rating: 6.4/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 16 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Theresa Dunn (Diane Keaton) is sensitive grade-school teacher who leads a very different life after hours. Throwing off the emotional shackles of her troubled childhood, she enters the seemingly... Theresa Dunn (Diane Keaton) is sensitive grade-school teacher who leads a very different life after hours. Throwing off the emotional shackles of her troubled childhood, she enters the seemingly liberated world of singles bars and one-night stands in 1970s New York. But the self-degradation takes its toll and her loneliness only intensifies, catapulting Theresa into a volatile world of drug addiction and sexual alienation. This vivid and intense portrait of the free-spirited swinging-singles scene in New York City captures the naive spirit of early feminism as well as the turmoil of a woman's attempt to find her own sexual and spiritual identity. Theresa's own dreams and struggles are uniquely brought to life in delightful and disturbing fantasy sequences that bring a brash and complex nature to her own soul searchings. Diane Keaton's performance is raw and bittersweet, portraying the delight of sexual freedom as well as the volatile need and desire that she cannot quelch. Richard Brooks brilliantly employs a hard-hitting soundtrack, brutal cinematography, and intense realism to create a masterful cautionary tale and intimate portrait of the new woman of the 1970s. [More]

Starring: Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, Richard Gere, Richard Kiley

Starring: Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, Richard Gere, Richard Kiley, William Atherton, Alan Feinstein, Tom Berenger, Priscilla Pointer

Director: Richard Brooks

Director: Richard Brooks
Screenwriter: Richard Brooks
Producer: Freddie Fields
Composer: Artie Kane

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Jun 5, 1997

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In Looking for Mr Goodbar, writer-director Richard Brooks manifests his ability to catch accurately both the tone and subtlety of characters in the most repellant environments.

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04/08/08
Variety Staff
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Brooks, hardly a great director, doesn't quite pull off this adaptation of the Rossner novel.

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04/08/08
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Judith Rossner's calculated bestseller, about a contemporary woman's sexuality and her 'descent' into the world of New York singles bars, gets what it deserves in this old-fashioned adaptation.

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02/09/06
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07/01/05
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

A rough, tough ride, with a surprisingly edgy Keaton performance.

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01/13/05
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

Looking for Mr. Goodbar is very much worth seeing, particularly for the Diane Keaton performance.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
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09/17/04
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

Despite a solid lead performance, the film is off-putting rather than involving.

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09/09/04
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Apesar da atuação forte e corajosa de Keaton, que surpreende em um papel totalmente diferente do habitual, o filme é aborrecido e irremediavelmente datado.

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01/24/04
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

No review available.

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10/04/03
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

One of Keaton's most daring and electrifying performances

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09/21/03
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

Lugubrious and depressing, made noteworthy only for the interesting turn by Keaton.

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08/16/03
Nick Davis
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A fine thriller, Looking For Mr Goodbar is a reminder that Richard Brooks was a writer-director of rare talent and Diane Keaton is capable of a lot more than being ditsy.

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05/24/03
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Robert Roten
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10/18/02
Brian J. Arthurs
Beach Reporter (Southern California)

a none-too-subtle cautionary tale about the dangers of living a hedonistic nightlife masked by a legitimate daylife

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02/27/01
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

If you think you know Ms. Keaton -- you don't, until you've seen this one.

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Christopher Null
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One of those deeply flawed classics that you don't necessarily enjoy or even like, but you never forget.

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