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Dominican Rep. Looking for Mr. Goodbar
- Original title
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar
- Year
- 1977
- Running time
- 135 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Richard Brooks. Novel: Judith Rossner
- Cast
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Diane Keaton
Tom Berenger
Tuesday Weld
William Atherton
Richard Kiley- Alain Feinstein
Richard Gere
Brian Dennehy
LeVar Burton- Julius Harris
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Disability. Deafness
- 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 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.
- Awards
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1977: 2 nominations for Oscar: Supporting Actress (Tuesday Weld), Cinematography1977: Nominated for Golden Globe: Motion Picture Actress - Drama (Diane Keaton)1977: New York Film Critics Circle: Nominated for Best Actress (Diane Keaton)1977: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Nominated for Best Adapted Drama Screenplay
- Critics' reviews
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"Brooks hasn't improved the story by changing its focus, and he's distracted from the heart of the narrative by several unnecessary scenes. (...) But, all the same (...) is very much worth seeing, particularly for the Diane Keaton performance. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)."
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"'Looking for Mr. Goodbar' could have been just another sensationalist movie version of a shocking best seller. But Richard Brooks has filmed it with power, seriousness and integrity."
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"This is far and away Richard Brooks's best film. It is harrowing, powerful, appalling."
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"Richard Brooks, who adapted the novel by Judith Rossner and directed, has laid a windy jeremiad about our permissive society on top of fractured film syntax"
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"Richard Brooks manifests his ability to catch accurately both the tone and subtlety of characters in the most repellant environments"
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"Only Diane Keaton's performance counters the overall heavy-handedness."
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