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Just finally saw this. I know there have been a lot of DL threads on this over the years, but I'd never read them because I had never seen the film, but I've been thinking so much about Keaton this week I wanted to finally see it for myself, and right now it's available on youtube.

Many of the comments above are right on the money about the film. Keaton is absolutely extraordinary--she can be so sweet and lovable with her students, and she can be endearing even when the bald drug dealer gives her a dime to call Jesus and she scoffs as he leaves. And she's great in the scene where she gets sterilized.

But so many of the actors are just terrible, and give unconvincing performances. Alan Feinstein is just terrible and phony as her professor who has the affair with her, but I was really shocked at how bad Tuesday Weld is in this, especially since she won an Oscar nomination for her performance. Richard Kiley has some good scenes, but he's given just terrible lines.

And I agree the editing is terrible--it's too jarring, and it's hard to tell sometimes when Dunn is escaping into fantasies (although maybe that was the point, it makes the film seem very muddled).

A lot of the complaints that people have with the film not being "New York" enough or true enough to Roseann Quinn's experiences are missing the point that even though Teresa Dunn was based on Roseann Quinn, they were not supposed to be one and the same. (In real life Quinn had brother who was a priest who delivered the sermon at her funeral, for example, and there's no living brother in the film.)

I see also how this film touches more of a chord for gay men who lived through this time than Cruising did--you feel much more what it['s like to bring men home rather than Cruising did, and also what it;'s like to live a life when you're living the life of one sort of person at work and another sort when you go out to the clubs.