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Looking for Mr. Goodbar

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Looking for Mr. Goodbar
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R,2hrs 15min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1977
Director:
Richard Brooks
Distributor:
Paramount Pictures
Starring:
Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton  ...more
Synopsis: Adapted from Judith Rossner's best-selling novelization of a true story, Richard Brooks's melodrama turns one woman's search for a liberated life into a cautionary tale about promiscuity. After an affair with her college professor, no-longer-good Catholic girl Theresa Dunn (Diane Keaton) follows the lead of her hedonistic sister (Tuesday Weld) and moves out of her oppressive family home to forge a life of her own. A compassionate teacher of deaf children by day, Theresa metamorphoses into a sexually ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
With the casting of Diane Keaton as Theresa, Looking for Mr. Goodbar became a then-rarity in Hollywood movies, depicting an everyday woman with an erotic life, rather than a vamp or a whore. While Keaton's performance was hailed for embodying the contradictions faced by women after the sexual revolution, Looking for Mr. Goodbar was faulted for Brooks' heavy-handedly puritanical view of the 1970s singles ... Full Review
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Diane Keaton
Theresa Dunn
Tuesday Weld
Katherine Dunn
William Atherton
James Morrissey
Richard Kiley
Mr. Dunn
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