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Looking for Mr. Goodbar

1977Richard Brooks

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Theresa is a successful teacher of deaf children during the day but after a short unhappy affair starts to spend her nights cruising bars. Her craving first for sex but later also for drugs leads into increasingly demeaning and dangerous situations at odds with her daytime commitment to her children.

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Mid-1960s to 1980s, and possibly several movements depending on what you read. Spaghetti Westerns, Commedia all'italiana, and French New Wave are doing great in American cinemas, and "traditional Hollywood" is on the decline. Studios turn to new writers and directors to try to capture the "European Phenomenon." This is the beginning of the great 1970s revolution of American film: technological advancements, anti-establishment politics, counter culture and liberalization of sexuality, and the later rise of major blockbuster films

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