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In this emotional roller coaster ride, Robert Harmon (John Cassavetes) is a street-wise, sometimes obnoxious writer currently working on a book about the seamier side of buying/selling love, and Sarah... read more read more... Lawson (Gena Rowlands) is an emotive wife and mother struggling through a divorce and custody battle. When Sarah lands on Robert's doorstep with her suitcases, it seems at first that she has returned to her husband. Robert has several women staying at his place (research sources!), but when his real ex-wife arrives with their young son, he sends the women packing. Sarah, it turns out, is Robert's sister. As the two work out their own live's hurdles -- Robert, the unaccustomed father with his 8-year-old son, and Sarah, trying to cope with her custody battle and its results -- their way of handling adversity and personal burdens becomes the real subtext of the film. This film won the Golden Bear Award at the 1984 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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PG-13, 2 hr. 16 min.

Directed by: John Cassavetes

Release Date: August 24, 1984

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  • January 25, 2008
    As in any Cassavettes, the good outweighs the bad because the good is fucking amazing.

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Dennis Lim
November 15, 2005
Dennis Lim, Village Voice

Love Streams is at once a culmination of the director's obsessions and his most atypical film. Full Review

Janet Maslin
May 20, 2003
Janet Maslin, New York Times

There's no other American director who can do what John Cassavetes does on the screen. Full Review

Roger Ebert
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

The movie is exasperating, because we never know where we stand or what will happen next. I think that's one of its strengths: There's an exhilaration in this roller-coaster ride through scenes that c... Full Review

Dave Kehr
January 1, 2000
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

John Cassavetes's career of risk taking comes to a climax in this rich, original, emotionally magnificent 1984 film. Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson
March 31, 2006
Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

This is a great film, and worthy of the effort it takes to sit through it. Full Review

Dennis Schwartz
March 9, 2006
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A risk taking highly emotional drama about love, loneliness, making a connection and desire. Full Review

Nick Davis
August 15, 2003
Nick Davis, Nick's Flick Picks

One of Cassavetes' most maddening films, but also one of his most wondrous and special.

July 30, 2003
TV Guide's Movie Guide

With Israeli filmmakers Golan and Globus watching over him, director John Cassavetes was guilty of less self-indulgence than usual, and the result is one of his best movies ever. Full Review

March 26, 2009
Variety

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Robert Denerstein
August 9, 2002
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News

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