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Looking for Mr. Goodbar
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| Author | Judith Rossner |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Publication date | May 1975 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 284 p. (hardback edition) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-671-22025-X (hardback edition) & ISBN 0-671-73575-6 (paperback edition) |
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| Directed by | Richard Brooks |
| Produced by | Freddie Fields |
| Written by | Judith Rossner (novel) Richard Brooks (screenplay) |
| Starring | Diane Keaton Tuesday Weld Richard Gere |
| Cinematography | William A. Fraker |
| Editing by | George Grenville |
| Release date(s) | October 19, 1977 (United States) |
| Running time | 135 min. |
| Language | English |
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar is a 1975 novel by Judith Rossner, and a 1977 film starring Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, and Richard Gere. Rossner based the novel on the events surrounding the brutal murder of Roseann Quinn, a 28-year-old New York City schoolteacher in 1973. The film was nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Cinematography. It also was nominated for the Best Actress Golden Globe; and received a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium.
A prologue of the confession of the murder of Theresa Dunn, the novel's protagonist. Theresa, a schoolteacher, often visits bars late at night when she is unable to sleep, picking up men and taking them back to her studio apartment. After copulating with them, she has them leave; never letting a man spend an entire night with her. The man who kills her does so after being told to leave, and becomes so infuriated that he hits her over the head with a lamp, smothers her with a pillow, and stabs her repeatedly.
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The 1977 film starring Diane Keaton traces the sexual awakening of a young teacher searching for excitement outside of her mundane existence. Originally in search of the "perfect man", whom she refers to as "Mr. Goodbar", she begins losing control of her life as her sexual appetite grows. Quiet and reserved teacher by day, sexual deviant and bar-hopper by night, Keaton begins to dabble in drugs and unstable men. Her self-destructive behavior is a means of escaping her numbing existence and of testing the boundaries of her otherwise safe life. One such sexual partner, played by Richard Gere, turns jealous and possessive, and begins to threaten her life. Ultimately, her sexual addiction and high risk behavior put her life in danger.
Keaton's character is strong and confident in her sexuality, while the men she sleeps with are insecure, angry, and primally instinctive in their actions.
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