Love Streams

Love Streams (1984)

  • 100% of critics liked it
    (13 reviews)

  • 88% of users liked it
    (1,395 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

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PG-13, 2 hr. 16 min.
Directed By
John Cassavetes
Written By
Ted Allan
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Aug 24, 1984 Limited
MGM Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Dennis Lim, Village Voice

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

  • Janet Maslin, New York Times

    There's no other American director who can do what John Cassavetes does on the screen.

  • 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.

  • Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

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

  • 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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  • Tim S


    As in any Cassavettes, the good outweighs the bad because the good is fucking amazing.

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