Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) – Richard Brooks
Looking for Mr. Goodbar is a 1975 novel by Judith Rossner, and a 1977 film by Richard Brooks starring Diane Keaton and Richard Gere, based on the true story of a woman who has an affair with her sadistic and misogynistic professor as the beginning of a long downward spiral that culminates in her brutal murder.
In recent years the film has been compared to Jane Campion’s 2003 In the Cut. Lou Lumenick in the New York Post called the latter an “erotic thriller that amounts to an implausible update on Looking for Mr. Goodbar.”
Notes:
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar foreshadows the end of the sexual revolution.
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar wasn’t the first foray of Richard Brooks into true crime, there had been a film adaptation of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood in 1967.