Looking for Mr. Goodbar
by Judith Rossnerliterary work· published 1975
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar is a novel by American writer Judith Rossner. Published in 1975, the book—a "stunning psychological study of a woman's passive complicity in her own death"—won critical acclaim and was a #1 New York Times best seller. Theresa "Terry" Dunn, a young woman living in New York City, leads a double life: by day she is a devoted schoolteacher, but by night she cruises singles bars. Eventually, just as she is trying to make a new start, Terry is murdered by a young drifter who she has just met and invited home.
Adaptations (2)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar has been adapted 2 times, across film and television film, from 1977 to 1983. The most recent is Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer (1983).
Looking for Mr. Goodbar1977 · film · 136 min · dir. Richard Brooks · IMDb ↗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.
