Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)

Storyline

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 completely at odds with her daytime commitment to her children. Looking for Mr. Goodbar, the classic 1977 Richard Brooks New York City doomed tragic relationship sex melodrama (“Based on the novel by Judith Rossner”) starring Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld (in her nominated for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award role), William Atherton, Richard Kiley, and Richard Gere (in a small, but significant role, which helped him to become a superstar)