Looking For Mr. Goodbar (1977)

An inner city school teacher (Diane Keaton) for deaf children leads a double life. A respectable school teacher by day, at night she frequents dive bars and dance clubs looking for easy men and one night stands. Based on the novel by Judith Rossner and directed by Richard Brooks (ELMER GANTRY). Rossner's novel was inspired by the shocking 1973 murder of a school teacher, Roseann Quinn. A dark and disturbing movie that encapsulates the 1970s sexual revolution of one night stands and random sex that ushered in the era of AIDS in the 1980s. Keaton had a one two punch in 1977 with this film and ANNIE HALL. She won an Oscar for the latter but this is the film she should have won the Oscar for. It's a brave "go for it" performance and she holds nothing back. It's still the best performance of her career. Nothing she did before or since comes close. The film is not without its flaws. At times, Brooks pushes too hard and the film becomes lurid in ways that the book never was. With Tuesday Weld (in an Oscar nominated performance), Richard Gere, Tom Berenger, Richard Kiley, William Atherton, LeVar Burton, Brian Dennehy and Priscilla Pointer.