And the answer that emerges-"Just unlucky, I guess"-speaks to a larger question: how much control do women have over their own lives?Ĭertainly, Theresa is unlucky. She meticulously explores and examines an adulthood ofĭisastrous love affairs. She follows Theresa through a miserable ugly-duckling-with-a-swan-for-a-sister childhood, a childhood also clouded with a crippling illness that leaves deep emotion and physical scars. The question the author asks, as she tours the life of Theresa Dunn, the Roseann Quinn-like character of the book is, "What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?" Of them bashed in her skull on New Year's Day, 1973. Goodbar" is based loosely on the actual case of a Roseann Quinn, a quite, rigidly brought-up, Catholic schoolteacher, who was wholly unremarkable except that she sought out her sexual partners in New York singles bars.
The sureness of Judith Rossner's writing and her almost flawless sense of timing create a complex and chilling portrait of a woman's descent into hell that gives this book considerable literary merit. Is so good a read, so stunningly commercial as a novel, that it runs the risk of being consigned to artistic oblivion. Her first three novels were beautifully reviewed and didn't sell. Udith Rossner has impeccable literary credentials. I can’t remember now if Theresa was reading it in the book or not, or if the filmmakers threw that in as an in-joke.Looking for Mr. I like the scene where Theresa (Keaton) is sitting at the bar reading The Godfather when she first meets Tony (Gere) and he riffs on it a bit, saying something like “I’m going to make you an offer you can’t refuse.” Of course, Keaton had already starred in The Godfather Pts 1 & 2 by that time. They really did use the cream of the crop of songs. At that time I thought I hated “disco” and was firmly in the “DISCO SUCKS” camp, yet I owned the soundtrack (on 8-track because my car had an 8-track player) and listened to it over and over.
Besides the movie as a whole being good, IMO, Diane Keaton is at her most beautiful (or maybe second to Reds from a few years later), the young Richard Gere is fun to watch, a young Tom Berenger is terrifying to watch, a young William Atherton is interesting to watch, TUESDAY WELD is in it! and the soundtrack is absolutely killer.
I went through a brief fascination with the book, movie, soundtrack and the true story it was based on. It’s pretty faithful to the book if my memory serves me.
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