Mr. Goodbar

Original title: Looking for Mr. Goodbar

1977
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2h 16m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

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Dedicated schoolteacher Theresa Dunn spends her nights cruising bars, looking for males with whom she can engage in progressively dangerous extreme sexual encounters.Dedicated schoolteacher Theresa Dunn spends her nights cruising bars, looking for males with whom she can engage in progressively dangerous extreme sexual encounters.Dedicated schoolteacher Theresa Dunn spends her nights cruising bars, looking for males with whom she can engage in progressively dangerous extreme sexual encounters.

Director
- Richard Brooks
Writers
- Judith Rossner
- Richard Brooks
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

9.1K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

4,817

264

Director
- Richard Brooks
Writers
- Judith Rossner
- Richard Brooks
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 1 win & 6 nominations total

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Trivia
Tom Berenger admitted in an interview that he had nightmares after he was finished shooting all of his scenes as Gary.

Goofs
Theresa is supposed to be a first-grade teacher, but all her students look to be way older. The youngest seem to be 9 or 10 while the oldest could be 12, 13 or even older.

Quotes
Gary: In my neighbourhood if you didn't fight you were a fruit. In prison if you didn't fight you spread ass.

Crazy credits
The Paramount logo is shortened at both ends, fading in at the point the text already appears. It was gray-scaled in the closing version.

Connections
Featured in Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen: Forward Into the Past (1996)

Soundtracks
Try Me, I Know We Can Make It
Written by Donna Summer (uncredited), Giorgio Moroder (uncredited) and Pete Bellotte (uncredited)
Performed by Donna Summer
Courtesy of Casablanca Record & FilmWorks

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Featured review

7/10

Depressing Film With A Brilliant Lead Performance

Looking For Mr. Goodbar isn't exactly the kind of feel good movie you might want to pop in on a rainy Sunday afternoon. It's heavy - almost suffocatingly so at times. What it does offer is a great chance for Diane Keaton to play a very different kind of character. Her Theresa is nothing like her Annie Hall or Nina Banks and that's refreshing to see. It's also an excellent time capsule of New York City life in the 70's.

With an upbeat 70's disco soundtrack (odds are, you'll know most of the tunes), Looking For Mr. Goodbar tracks a schoolteacher looking for love, passion, and satisfaction anyway she can find it. Sometimes it leads to heartbreak, sometimes it leads to danger, but it always leads to depression for the audience.

It's been a long time since I've seen a film this aggressively depressing and cynical and, to be honest, it's hard for me to process. On one hand, Keaton's work is exceptional, but on the other hand, it's a pretty tough slog to sit through. One needs to be in the right frame of mind to make it through.