When she was a teenager, she suffered a lot to heal the scoliosis, being immobilized for one year after many surgeries. Written by Trivia In the brief scene when Katherine's new husband Barney Joel Fabiani is introduced to her family, he also meets Mrs. A lot of her school scenes slow the movie down. We are an independent movie lovers club worldwide with 646. Theresa later finds out that her scoliosis is , and that her aunt had the same condition and committed suicide.
Click the menu icon and choose 'Settings' within the respective menu. But having finally seen the uncut film after thirty years, I'm going to make a few comments about it. Even more chilling is that it's not entirely an act of will; in the face of an abusive father and a first love who treats her like a sexual cesspool, detachment becomes a weapon of survival. This appropriation of Theresa's thoughts and fantasies, woven into the structure of her physical existence, draws and binds the audience to her journey into Hell but is also problematic and disingenuous on Brook's part---as the film delineates her descent, Brooks' script appears to validate the integrity of her dilemma, but also implicates female sexual self-determination in her downfall. Well worth seeing, but a very sad film about a sad life.
Many critics praised Diane Keaton's performance. She finds a job in a specialized school, where she is a lovely and affectionate teacher with her kids during the day. She delights in working people over verbally -- in kidding them, mocking them, putting them down, playing games with them. Goodbar,' even when the film is not. I recall that she said she never cried despite the pain she had gone through as a child.
I am unable to come to a definite conclusion about this. I think that she accepted her fate because she realized that she would never find that father figure that she desired. Well that's the thing, people have there own opinion on why they liked or disliked this movie. Through her job, Theresa also meets and dates an Irish-American welfare caseworker, James. Goodbar introduced , and , all as men whom Theresa encounters. What an incredibly visceral and haunting ending.
In the video, Madonna plays a woman who, like Theresa, engages in by drinking heavily and sleeping around with random men before she is ultimately murdered by a man she had selected for a. Her parents approve of the responsible James, seeing him as a potential husband for Theresa. Who after having their way with her with put Theresa away in the drawer until the next time they felt like having a romp in the woods. Richard Gere has a performance very similar to his characters in 'American Gigolo' and 'Breathless', having the same movements of his body, hitting objects with his fingers like a drum etc. He's lost the erotic, pulpy morbidity that made the novel a compulsive read; the film is splintered, moralistic, tedious. Still, it's hard not to imagine Keaton and Tuesday Weld exchanging roles: Weld has a much wider range as an actress and certainly would have handled the 'secret life' with more conviction. This film seems to indulge us in its sleazy world, yet it seems to judge Theresa for immersing herself in it in a vain attempt to ease her pain.
Diane Keaton made the move from the comedic heroine to the troubled Theresa Dunn, a sensitive, caring teacher by day, looking for love in all the wrong places at night. Like it or hate it, you've got to admit there has never been a film like this on the screen. Her younger sister Katherine, Tuesday Weld, was also not what her father Mr. Most of the credit for this film's power goes to Diane Keaton's presence. He is much more sleazy and vaguely sinister than in the novel. It's an emotional wallop of a film. But, all the same, Brooks hasn't directed a bad picture.
Although Gary is attracted to Theresa, when they are in bed together at her apartment, Gary finds himself unable to achieve an erection. William Atherton the jerk in so many 80s movies is a sensitive-seeming lover. While in college, Theresa lives with her repressive Polish-Irish Catholic parents, and suffers from severe issues following a childhood surgery for that left a large scar on her back. And Keaton plays her wonderfully, with a light touch you'd think would be impossible with this material. Then there's that ending that bothers me.
On the physical level, though, she needs constant reassurance. A film oddly at 90 degrees from the contemporary cinema of the late 1970s with its heavily, albeit shocking, moralistic conclusion. Although being a long movie, the reason why Theresa is promiscuous is not clear enough. She's a top caliber actor. Her work is perfectly modulated, at times repulsively real and raw, and at other times devastatingly poignant in the ways she lies to herself and others about the implications of her character's actions.