Who here remembers the film, "Looking For Mr Goodbar"?

I remember seeing this at the theatre..it was pretty raunchy, richard gere was hot..the ending kind of blew my mind.

good flik for sure.

a classic 70s movie.I even have the soundtrack on vinyl

I thought this thread was going to be about candy.

I've never seen/heard of the movie.

CrabalockerFishwife said:

I've never seen/heard of the movie.

It's a 1977 movie about a school teacher (played by a young Diane Keaton) who goes bar-hopping every night,looking for one-night stands

They lifted this theme for the final season of Desperate Housewives. Super-straight edged Bree Van Der Kamp falls off the wagon after a traumatic experience she's keeping secret, and then secretly becomes the town barfly, taking a different man to bed every night and getting addicted to the high of it. It definitely spiced the plot up a bit an made me wonder if the show creator was a fan of the Diane Keaton movie.

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SoulAlive said:

CrabalockerFishwife said:

I've never seen/heard of the movie.

It's a 1977 movie about a school teacher (played by a young Diane Keaton) who goes bar-hopping every night,looking for one-night stands

But as time goes on things become more dangerous...and she likes it.

It got a lot of flak for making the gay male character psycho.

Young Richard Gere?

I'm all over this movie tonight.

years ago it came on cable late at night and i fell asleep watching it only 2 wake up 2 the ending..fucked me up 4 the rest of the day

Now if they were to do a remake, who would star in it?

L4OATheOriginal said:

years ago it came on cable late at night and i fell asleep watching it only 2 wake up 2 the ending..fucked me up 4 the rest of the day

Yeah, the ending was unpleasant to watch. I never watched it again

runphilrun said:

L4OATheOriginal said:

years ago it came on cable late at night and i fell asleep watching it only 2 wake up 2 the ending..fucked me up 4 the rest of the day

Yeah, the ending was unpleasant to watch. I never watched it again

me either and hence i never sought out 2 watch the movie ever

Read the book by Judith Rossner before I saw the movie. Very disturbing but it was based on real life events, the life of Roseann Quinn. The late Ms. Rossner was a gifted writer and tho' Soul broke down the plot to its simplest premise, I think the movie raise some questions of why the character Theresa Dunn makes the choices she does. Good book, nicely adapted for film. Nice soundtrack.

I never saw the film, but in high school I read my mum's copy of the book.

I heard just enough about the ending of the film to warn me off it when it originally came out (I was in high school) and I still haven't seen it.

sextonseven said:

I never saw the film, but in high school I read my mum's copy of the book.

besides

What was your opinion about the book? If you can recall... it's been a while since you read it.

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TD3 said:

sextonseven said:

I never saw the film, but in high school I read my mum's copy of the book.

besides

What was your opinion abouy the book? If you can recall... it's been a while since you read it.

That was over 25 years ago and I haven't read it since so I don't remember much--except for the explicit detail of her encounters. There's one chapter in particular I still find hot today if I'm remembering it correctly. My mum still has the book so the next time I visit my parents, I'll have to thumb through it and check.

I do remember finding the ending to be a real downer.

JabarR74 said:

Now if they were to do a remake, who would star in it?

I can't picture any of today's Hot & Under 40 actresses doing it. I need someone who can equally play clean scrubbed restrained & repressed then evolve into a someone willing to walk on the wild (albeit dark) side. Maybe Julianne?

It is not suppose to be pleasant but at 50 I think I can handle it. I would like to see it some day. It sounds like a great cast also.

I can not find this movie online.

I'm obviously curious to see it given the subject matter and all.

JustErin said:

I can not find this movie online.

I'm obviously curious to see it given the subject matter and all.

http://silveragemovies.co...p-285.html

The thing about silveragemovies, they offer hard to find movies discontinued movies hence the quality of the DVD may not be up to par with (Blue-Ray) current conditions. Personally, I haven't had an issue with this. I'm not sure if this what you were looking for or wanted to rent if from Nexflix or something.

TD3 said:

JustErin said:

I can not find this movie online.

I'm obviously curious to see it given the subject matter and all.

http://silveragemovies.co...p-285.html

The thing about silveragemovies, they offer hard to find movies discontinued movies hence the quality of the DVD may not be up to par with (Blue-Ray) current conditions. Personally, I haven't had an issue with this. I'm not sure if this what you were looking for or wanted to rent if from Nexflix or something.

Link doesn't work.

JustErin said:

TD3 said:

http://silveragemovies.co...p-285.html

The thing about silveragemovies, they offer hard to find movies discontinued movies hence the quality of the DVD may not be up to par with (Blue-Ray) current conditions. Personally, I haven't had an issue with this. I'm not sure if this what you were looking for or wanted to rent it from Nexflix or something.

Link doesn't work.

That's strange, I click on and it popped up. Google Silverage Movies and see if their website shows up, and search their database from there. Fingers crossed.

TD3 said:

JustErin said:

Link doesn't work.

That's strange, I click on and it popped up. Google Silverage Movies and see if their website shows up, and search their database from there. Fingers crossed.

So weird...even the site won't work for me.

JustErin said:

TD3 said:

That's strange, I click on and it popped up. Google Silverage Movies and see if their website shows up, and search their database from there. Fingers crossed.

So weird...even the site won't work for me.

The site works for me but my virus protection kept telling me it was blocking potential threats, maybe your computer is blocking the site?

The webpage cannot be found

DNS error occurred. Server cannot be found. The link may be broken./looking-for-mr-goodbar-1977-p-285.html

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

sextonseven said:

TD3 said:

besides

What was your opinion abouy the book? If you can recall... it's been a while since you read it.

That was over 25 years ago and I haven't read it since so I don't remember much--except for the explicit detail of her encounters. There's one chapter in particular I still find hot today if I'm remembering it correctly. My mum still has the book so the next time I visit my parents, I'll have to thumb through it and check.

I do remember finding the ending to be a real downer.

Ha...I used my sister's copy of the book to fuel my filthy teenaged mind way back when. Obviously I only recorded the dirty bits in my memory - I watched the movie a few years ago & didn't remember one single thing about the story, never mind the incredibly bleak ending.

The ending of the movie is truly disturbing - a word that can get tossed about a lot, but I think it applies in this case.

the movie soundtrack is excellent,if you like mid-70s disco "Lowdown" by Boz Scaggs is included.