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Looking for Mr. Goodbar is a 1977 American crime drama film, based on Judith Rossner's best-selling 1975 novel of the same name, which was inspired by the 1973 murder of New York City schoolteacher Roseann Quinn.
Oct 19, 1977 · Looking for Mr. Goodbar: Directed by Richard Brooks. With Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton, Richard Kiley. Dedicated schoolteacher Theresa Dunn spends her nights cruising bars, looking for males with whom she can engage in progressively dangerous extreme sexual encounters.
Nov 13, 2009 · Roseann Quinn, a 27-year-old New Yorker, visits Tweed’s Bar on the Upper West Side and is picked up by her soon-to-be killer. The incident inspires the cautionary novel and subsequent movie ...
Looking for Mr. Goodbar is a novel by American writer Judith Rossner. Published in 1975, the book—a "stunning psychological study of a woman's passive complicity in her own death" —won critical acclaim and was a #1 New York Times best seller.
Raised in a strict Catholic family, Theresa (Diane Keaton) teaches deaf children during the day and cruises singles bars and discos at night. Theresa favors rough sex with random suitors, ignoring...
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The ending of “Looking for Mr. Goodbar” is a shocking and tragic culmination of events that leaves viewers stunned. The film revolves around Theresa Dunn (played by Diane Keaton), a young woman on a quest for excitement and fulfillment in her life.
Dedicated schoolteacher Theresa Dunn spends her nights cruising bars, looking for males with whom she can engage in progressively dangerous extreme sexual encounters.
The heroine of Judith Rossner's bestseller was looking. Theresa was turned on to a particular flavor of self-destructive sexual experience, one involving possible danger to herself, and she played a role in bringing about her own death.
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) For decades, Diane Keaton has been so firmly established in the public imagination as a Woody Allen muse and brilliant comic actress that it's easy to forget that she has turned in some equally impressive dramatic performances.
A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively more violent sexual encounters.
