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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 abusive males with whom she can engage in progressively dangerous extreme sexual encounters.
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- Drama
- Richard Brooks
- 1977-10-19
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.
- Judith Rossner
- 1975
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.
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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- Richard Brooks
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- Diane Keaton
Jan 1, 1975 · Looking for Mr. Goodbar. Judith Rossner. 3.67. 6,427 ratings356 reviews. Based on a harrowing true story, the groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, is a story of love, power, sex, and death during the sexual revolution of the 1970s.
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Dedicated schoolteacher Theresa Dunn spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive males with whom she can engage in progressively dangerous extreme sexual encounters.
