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- 1977
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 16 m
- 1977
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 16 m
Summary A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.
Directed By: Richard Brooks
Written By: Judith Rossner, Richard Brooks
- 1977
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 16 m
- 1977
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 16 m
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
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8.0
Summary A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.
Directed By: Richard Brooks
Written By: Judith Rossner, Richard Brooks
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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56% Positive
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44% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
64
56% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
44% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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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. [24 Oct 1977, p.126]
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 - in this case the desperate search for personal identity in the dreary and self-defeating world of compulsive sex and dope. Diane Keaton's performance as the good/bad girl is excellent.
The performance and the character are fully realized, even in this movie that finds room for so many loose ends and dead ends.
What makes the film — which Richard Brooks directed and scripted, adapting Judith Rossner’s bestselling 1975 novel of the same name — so fascinating and repellent at once is precisely the confusion and anxiety it articulates about women’s sexual freedom.
Miss Keaton, who continues to grow as an actress and film presence, is worth paying attention to in bits and pieces of the movie. She's too good to waste on the sort of material the movie provides, which is artificial without in anyway qualifying as a miracle fabric.
Brooks, hardly a great director, doesn't quite pull off this adaptation of the Rossner novel.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
8.0
60% Positive
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Production Company
Freddie Fields Productions
Release Date Oct 19, 1977
Duration 2 h 16 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline A teacher by day. At night she cruises.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Fotogramas de Plata
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
