Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) on Netflix
Theresa Dunn teaches deaf children by day and keeps close to her Catholic family. An affair with a married professor sends her into singles' bars, drugs and dangerous men.
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- IMDb6.7/1010,112 votes
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Plot summary
Theresa Dunn lives with her Catholic family in the suburbs and studies to teach deaf children. She begins an affair with Martin Engle, her married professor, who ends it before her graduation. Katherine, her older sister, works as a flight attendant and has left her husband; she keeps a man in Chicago and another in New York. Theresa takes a job as a teacher of deaf children and takes an apartment in Katherine's building. She spends her evenings in singles' bars, where she reads and drinks. A hustler named Tony shares cocaine with her, and a welfare caseworker, James, begins courting her, which her parents welcome.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
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The film was inspired by the real 1973 murder of New York schoolteacher Roseann Quinn, whose killing was fictionalized in Judith Rossner's 1975 novel the film is based on.- Rights disputes over the film's extensive use of popular music kept Looking for Mr. Goodbar off home video for nearly 20 years, until Vinegar Syndrome finally released it on Blu-ray in November 2024.
- Diane Keaton was so uncomfortable filming her first nude scene that she asked director Richard Brooks, after overhearing him play a Johann Sebastian Bach record at lunch, to play the same record on set to help her get through it.
- The film gave LeVar Burton and Tom Berenger their introductions to the screen and served as the first major screen credit for both Richard Gere and Brian Dennehy.
- Diane Keaton wasn't even nominated for an Academy Award for her acclaimed performance here, but she won Best Actress that same year for a different film, Annie Hall.
