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Title | Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) | Alternative/Original Title | | Disability | Deaf Speaking Impaired Polio Coliosis | Country | USA | Length | 135 | Genre | Drama | Rating | 3 | Director | Richard Brooks
| Cast | Diane Keaton Tuesday Weld William Atherton Richard Kiley Alan Feinstein Richard Gere Tom Berenger
| Notes | A teacher of deaf children spents her evenings in singles bars. Eventually she is murdered. The teacher had polio as a child which caused coliosis requiring an operation to straighten her spine, and she's in plaster for a year. The children in her class are really deaf children and Louie Fant, a hearing man of deaf parents, portrays a sign language instructor. From Judith Rossner's novel which was based on a true story.
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