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Diane Keaton gives a riveting performance here and it shows. Also starring the film debut of Richard Gere with a powerful film soundtrack score from some of the best music that came out of 1977.

A provocative edgy drama based on the best-selling novel by Judith Rossner, about a repressed young teacher named Theresa Dunn, brilliantly played by Diane Keaton in a powerful and emotionally complex performance. whose initially innocent search to find a man of her dreams escalates into promiscuous and dangerous encounters with men she meets in bars, she begins to wallow endlessly in her new "liberated" sexual lifestyle, the thrill of the evening trysts, which eventually involves drugs and violence has her life spinning out of control with this self-destructive behavior. Diane Keaton wonderfully balances the dual aspect of her character's life, by day a outwardly caring teacher to deaf children living a banal existence, and by night a drug-fueled bar tramp, this film is a indictment against the sexual attitudes of the 70s, where disco was the music and coke and weed was the new drugs of choice, the sexual revolution was at it's peak here, before herpes and AIDS made their dreaded entrance. This is one of the few and rare instances where the film is better than the book, thanks to the brilliant screenplay and direction of Richard Brooks. It is difficult to watch at times but this film is pure cinema at it's highest level. Superlative performances from Tuesday Weld, Richard Kiley, William Atherton, Priscilla Pointer, Tom Berenger and Richard Gere in a memorable turn as a hyperactive hustler. Shocking then it is thought-provoking now, and builds to a unforgettable and shattering climax. Highly Recommended.

Diane Keaton's performance is stunning. And I am fairly certain that I have dated Richard Gere's character. However, I was a bit disappointed that the movie veered away from the book. It is a more interesting story for Theresa to have a self-destructive bent. She picks up guys because she knows they'll be trouble. In the movie she is just a hedonist.

Former good girl Theresa(Diane Keaton) moves out of her parent''s home to forge a life of her own. During the day she teaches deaf children, but at night she turns into into a promiscuous drug using, party-girl frequenting singles bars. Theresa goes to one last bar and brings home one last stranger.

Richard Brooks's LFMG is a straight fwd story with a fascinating character played by Keaton and good supporting roles by Richard Gere and Tuesday Weld and Tom Beranger. Brooks is quite good bringing the 70's vibe with disco music and dark drinking bars and the love Keaton has for deaf children.

This film is one of the greatest I have ever seen. Adapted fairly well from the book,it is a commentary on the free love/sex era of the 70's. Diane Keaton is wonderful as the sexually conflicted main character,suffering the aftermath of a Catholic childhood and debilitating polio.She does find her freedom,but it is short lived and ultimately tragic.

An artistic and cultural relic of its day, this film is fairly flawed but for me strangely compelling. It also indirectly anticipates slasher movies by a few years.

OMG...Like this movie like the main character was absolutely out of control. Worth one look if you're bored"

I recently saw this movie again. I understand and like it more than I did when I first saw it as a teen. Diane Keaton is top notch.

diane keaton has never done it for me as a comedienne. but when she has the right project, she is a compelling actress. this performance is one of the best on film in america. period. she has yet to match it because everyone sees her as a dippy new yorker type.

Movie was quite good, of course the book was better, and based on a true story. At the time this happened the world didn't realize that what they considered "good girls" could get into bad trouble like this.

Complex story with a surprise ending. Early Richard Gere, is promising as an up and coming superstar.

This movie was like forbidden fruit when it first came out. It is still sexier and more decadent than anything of this nature out there today.

Diane Keaton gets frisky in this taut 70s sexual thriller, but what the hell's up with the lame out-of-nowhere ending?

I saw this film when it first opened back in October '77 (I was 16). I was wholly devastated and forever changed by the power of film! Seeing it as an adult, many, many years later, the film has (to a degree) become a little rusty and hamfisted in its translation to screen; however, there is no denying the astonishing performances from all involved, the tightly controlled direction from Brooks, the spectacular soundtrack, the intense editing and cinematography, and (of course) the devastating final, strobe-lit, scene! One of my top-10 all-time best films!

Release it on DVD so I can see it. One movie I've always heard about but have never seen.

Seen it three times 10 or so years apart. Stick to your day life.

Eh, not terrible, but also not very good.

Unforgettable film. first time in theater 15 yrs old. Just now at 52 finally I own it, so true to life back then. Probably now also...

Very good drama about a teachers double life in the 19709's era NYC bar scene. Really suprising and great performances by Keaton, Atherton, and Berenger. Gere's was very strange like a really bad version of Travolta's character in Welcome Back Cotter. Overall really liked this film and showed a broken and desperate society but at times was too moralistic in doing so,

In top twenty. I was actually bored one night earlier this year looking for a new film to watch, none of the new ones sounded that good and then I found this little flick with Diane Keaton and Richard Gere - One word - unexpected!.....the ending has ruined any potential future one night flings, lol