Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

6.4IMDb Score
Released:1977-10-19
Genre:Drama, Crime
Duration:136 min
Country:United States of America
Director:Richard Brooks
Actors:Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton, Richard Kiley, Richard Gere
Production:Paramount Pictures, Freddie Fields Productions

Overview:

A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she begins to engage in a pattern of dangerous sexual activity.

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