Diane Keaton,
Tuesday Weld,
William Atherton,
Richard Kiley,
Richard Gere
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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 aff... read more
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February 27, 2007Diane Keaton gives a riveting performance here and it shows. Also starring the film debut of Richard Gere with a powerful film soundtrack score from some of the best music that came out of 1977.
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January 29, 2012A provocative edgy drama based on the best-selling novel by Judith Rossner, about a repressed young teacher named Theresa Dunn, brilliantly played by Diane Keaton in a powerful and emotionally complex performance. whose initially innocent search to find a man of her dreams escala... read more
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February 7, 2011Diane Keaton's performance is stunning. And I am fairly certain that I have dated Richard Gere's character. However, I was a bit disappointed that the movie veered away from the book. It is a more interesting story for Theresa to have a self-destructive bent. She picks up guys be... read more
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January 15, 2011Former good girl Theresa(Diane Keaton) moves out of her parent''s home to forge a life of her own. During the day she teaches deaf children, but at night she turns into into a promiscuous drug using, party-girl frequenting singles bars. Theresa goes to one last bar and brings hom... read more
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March 28, 2008This film is one of the greatest I have ever seen. Adapted fairly well from the book,it is a commentary on the free love/sex era of the 70's. Diane Keaton is wonderful as the sexually conflicted main character,suffering the aftermath of a Catholic childhood and debilitating polio... read more
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February 22, 2012fb50316760An artistic and cultural relic of its day, this film is fairly flawed but for me strangely compelling. It also indirectly anticipates slasher movies by a few years.
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February 4, 2010OMG...Like this movie like the main character was absolutely out of control. Worth one look if you're bored"
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December 3, 2009I recently saw this movie again. I understand and like it more than I did when I first saw it as a teen. Diane Keaton is top notch.
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October 23, 2008diane keaton has never done it for me as a comedienne. but when she has the right project, she is a compelling actress. this performance is one of the best on film in america. period. she has yet to match it because everyone sees her as a dippy new yorker type.
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May 15, 2008Movie was quite good, of course the book was better, and based on a true story. At the time this happened the world didn't realize that what they considered "good girls" could get into bad trouble like this.
Critic Reviews
April 8, 2008
Variety Staff, Variety
October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Looking for Mr. Goodbar is very much worth seeing, particularly for the Diane Keaton performance. Full Review
February 11, 2012
Adam Lippe, Examiner.com
Goodbar features flash forwards and flashbacks, hallucinations so hammy they would fit right into a Naked Gun movie and religious and sexual subtext so heavy-handed you'd think if a studio couldn't ge... Full Review
April 8, 2008
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Brooks, hardly a great director, doesn't quite pull off this adaptation of the Rossner novel. Full Review
February 9, 2006
Time Out
Judith Rossner's calculated bestseller, about a contemporary woman's sexuality and her 'descent' into the world of New York singles bars, gets what it deserves in this old-fashioned adaptation. Full Review
January 13, 2005
Rob Thomas, Capital Times (Madison, WI)
A rough, tough ride, with a surprisingly edgy Keaton performance.
September 9, 2004
Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Despite a solid lead performance, the film is off-putting rather than involving.
January 24, 2004
Pablo Villaca, Cinema em Cena
Apesar da atuação forte e corajosa de Keaton, que surpreende em um papel totalmente diferente do habitual, o filme é aborrecido e irremediavelmente datado.
September 21, 2003
James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette
One of Keaton's most daring and electrifying performances
August 16, 2003
Nick Davis, Nick's Flick Picks
Lugubrious and depressing, made noteworthy only for the interesting turn by Keaton.
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