Looking for Mr. Goodbar

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 affair with her college professor, no-longer-good Catholic girl Theresa Dunn (Diane Keaton) follows the ...more

With the casting of Diane Keaton as Theresa, Looking for Mr. Goodbar became a then-rarity in Hollywood movies, depicting an everyday woman with an erotic life, rather than a vamp or a whore. While Keaton's performance was hailed for embodying the contradictions faced by women after the sexual revolution, Looking for Mr. Goodbar was faulted for Brooks' heavy-handedly puritanical view of the 1970s singles bar world. With its cultural currency, Looking for Mr. Goodbar became a moderate hit, as ...more