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Theresa is a successful teacher of deaf children during the day but after a short unhappy affair starts to spend her nights cruising bars. Her craving first for sex but later also for drugs leads into increasingly demeaning and dangerous situations completely at odds with her daytime commitment to her children. Written by
Jeremy Perkins <jwp@aber.ac.uk>
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Actress
Diane Keaton's contract explicitly prohibited the manufacture of any production photograph stills from any "sexually suggestive" frames from the film's print.
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Goofs
In the book, Theresa's sister Katherine goes to Puerto Rico to procure an abortion during a scene that takes place in the mid-1960s. In the movie, the timeline is changed so that this scene is set in 1975, two years after abortion was legalized by the Roe v. Wade ruling, making the trip to Puerto Rico unnecessary.
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Quotes
James:
Is that why you don't wash the dishes, because the roaches are hungry?
Theresa:
Why else?
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Soundtracks
Silent Night, Holy Night
(1818) (uncredited)
Music by
Franz Gruber
Lyrics by
Joseph Mohr
Sung by
Diane Keaton and her students
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Well. . after viewing this movie for the first time, I must admit. . it is one of those movie experiences that you will remember for a very long time.
Released in 1977, "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" must have shocked quite a few people with it's tale of sex, drugs . . . and more sex and drugs. Diane Keaton plays Theresa, an elementary school teacher specializing in deaf education who's nighttime excursions to the single's bars in New York City seldom bring her back to her apartment alone.
I must admit this movie was shocking to me throughout the first 2 hours. . but the last fifteen minutes will leave you breathless. . you must see this film. .