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Love Streams (1984)

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Reviews Counted: 13

Fresh: 13

Rotten:0

Average Rating: 7.9/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins

Genre: Dramas

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: In adapting Ted Allan's play, John Cassavetes dives headlong into issues concerning love and its complications. The story follows two seemingly unconnected individuals who are in the midst of... In adapting Ted Allan's play, John Cassavetes dives headlong into issues concerning love and its complications. The story follows two seemingly unconnected individuals who are in the midst of personal crises. Robert Harmon (Cassavetes) is a successful writer who can't seem to control his libido; he fills his house with a rotating cast of attractive females in order to feel less lonely. Sarah Lawson (Gena Rowlands) is a fragile woman whose life begins to fall apart when her husband divorces her and retains custody of her daughter. In a series of events, Robert takes his young son Albie on a debauched trip to Las Vegas upon seeing him for the first time since his birth; he also tries to convince Sarah to love her own daughter just little bit less. John Cassavetes's last screen appearance as an actor, and last personal film as a director, is another challenging drama that tackles deeply profound questions without becoming heavy handed. [More]

Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Diahnne Abbott, Risa Martha Blewitt

Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Diahnne Abbott, Risa Martha Blewitt

Director: John Cassavetes

Director: John Cassavetes

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03/26/09
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This is a great film, and worthy of the effort it takes to sit through it.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
03/31/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

A risk taking highly emotional drama about love, loneliness, making a connection and desire.

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03/09/06
Dennis Schwartz
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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

Love Streams is at once a culmination of the director's obsessions and his most atypical film.

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11/15/05
Dennis Lim
Village Voice

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08/04/05
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily

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07/24/05
Emanuel Levy
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03/24/05
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly

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08/22/03
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

One of Cassavetes' most maddening films, but also one of his most wondrous and special.

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08/15/03
Nick Davis
Nick's Flick Picks

With Israeli filmmakers Golan and Globus watching over him, director John Cassavetes was guilty of less self-indulgence than usual, and the result is one of his best movies ever.

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07/30/03
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05/24/03
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There's no other American director who can do what John Cassavetes does on the screen.

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05/20/03
Janet Maslin
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10/31/02
Brian J. Arthurs
Beach Reporter (Southern California)
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08/09/02
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News

John Cassavetes's career of risk taking comes to a climax in this rich, original, emotionally magnificent 1984 film.

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01/01/00
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader

The movie is exasperating, because we never know where we stand or what will happen next. I think that's one of its strengths: There's an exhilaration in this roller-coaster ride through scenes that come out of nowhere.

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01/01/00
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