Love Streams (1984)
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100% of critics liked it
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88% of users liked it
(1,453 ratings)
In this emotional roller coaster ride, Robert Harmon (John Cassavetes) is a street-wise, sometimes obnoxious writer currently working on a book about the seamier side of buying/selling love, and Sarah Lawson (Gena Rowlands) is an emotive wife and mother struggling through a divorce and custody… More In this emotional roller coaster ride, Robert Harmon (John Cassavetes) is a street-wise, sometimes obnoxious writer currently working on a book about the seamier side of buying/selling love, and Sarah Lawson (Gena Rowlands) is an emotive wife and mother struggling through a divorce and custody battle. When Sarah lands on Robert's doorstep with her suitcases, it seems at first that she has returned to her husband. Robert has several women staying at his place (research sources!), but when his real ex-wife arrives with their young son, he sends the women packing. Sarah, it turns out, is Robert's sister. As the two work out their own live's hurdles -- Robert, the unaccustomed father with his 8-year-old son, and Sarah, trying to cope with her custody battle and its results -- their way of handling adversity and personal burdens becomes the real subtext of the film. This film won the Golden Bear Award at the 1984 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Directed By
- John Cassavetes
- Written By
- Ted Allan
- Genres
- Drama
PG-13,
- In Theaters
- Aug 24, 1984 Limited
- Studio
- MGM Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Lim, Village Voice
Love Streams is at once a culmination of the director's obsessions and his most atypical film.
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Janet Maslin, New York Times
There's no other American director who can do what John Cassavetes does on the screen.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
John Cassavetes's career of risk taking comes to a climax in this rich, original, emotionally magnificent 1984 film.
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Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
This is a great film, and worthy of the effort it takes to sit through it.
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Cast
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Gena Rowlands
as Sarah Lawson
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John Cassavetes
as Robert Harmon
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Diahnne Abbott
as Susan
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Seymour Cassel
as Jack Lawson
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Margaret Abbott
as Margarita
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Jakob Shaw
as Albie Swanson
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John Roselius
as Ken
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Michelle Conaway
as Agnes Swanson
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Eddy Donno
as Stepfather Swanson
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Doe Avedon
as Mrs. Kiner
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Tom Badal
as Sam the Lawyer
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Gregg Berger
as Taxi Driver
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Risa Martha Blewitt
as Debbie Lawson
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Tony Brubaker
as Frank
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Alexandra Cassavetes
as Backup Singer
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Dominique Davalos
as Backup Singer
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Raphael de Niro
as Billy
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Robert Fieldsteel
as Dr. Williams
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John Finnegan
as Taxi Driver
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Joan Foley
as Judge Dunbar
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Leslie Hope
as Joanie
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Jamie Horton
as Porter
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David Rowlands
as Psychiatrist
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Al Ruban
as Milton Kravitz
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William L. Thompson
as Porter
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C. Frank Beetson Jr.
as Cashier
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Phedon Papamichael
as Taxi Driver
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Logan Carter
as Female Impersonator
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Lenny Geer
as Lenny
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Kelly Lawrence
as Female Inpersonator
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Susan Wolf
as Jade Meadows Swift
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Neil Bell
as The Dog Man
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Joan Dykman
as Phyllis
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Jim W. Jones
as Taxi Driver
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Francois Duhamel
as Porter
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Michael Stein
as Porter
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Christopher Morley
as Female Impersonator
