Top 10 for me

I love this movie. I have a different kind of nostalgia for it. I was a kid in the 70s and I feel like all my friends had depicted to us in the media were really grim stories like Gacey, the perils of hitchhiking, the potential to get kidnapped and made to do underage porn. The 70s were very dark and movies like Hardcore and Foxes and LFMG really depicted that and there was also the constant possibility of a global nuclear war that left everyone feeling a little nihilistic (kind of like the teens on 'The Leftovers' - closest thing I've seen to capturing that vibe since the 70s). TV afterschool specials were about the dangers of angel dust and TV movies were incredibly salacious, like 'Dawn, Portrait of a Teenage Runaway' and the one where Linda Blair was raped in reform school. To the poster before who expressed shock that LFMG aired (edited for television) on prime time in the 1980, it was a different era: pre Reagan, pre AIDS & Quaaludes. Just about every major actress did nude scenes in the 70s, it's just the way it was. LFMG captured a scene that my friends and I were just a little too young for and had a sleazy elegance, plus it was a first rate picture: writing, directing, acting, soundtrack. I think Theresa always wanted to belong, was lonely (New Years Eve - babysitting - great moment) thought she was being cool, felt sophisticated rejecting her Dad's values (if it had been the 50s she would have been a beatnik, the 60s a hippie, the 70s outlet was promiscuity). She likely would have eventually changed as the rest of the country did, but she ran into the wrong guy. I love the iconic shot of Theresa reading The Godfather when Richard Gere first hits on her. I also enjoyed the LFMG book as a kid (like "Go Ask Alice") and even liked the TV movie Trackdown made in '83 with George Segal about the search for the "Goodbar Killer." I, like so many, would really enjoy this film to be released in the full Criterion treatment. Every actor is superb and all the little moments (her Dad and bf bonding over Wheel of Fortune, the mother in the projects who really couldn't care less about her deaf daughter 'speaking,' Theresa making an effort to recognize Passover to her sister's Jewish husband, Theresa bringing up the aunt who had polio that no one wanted to talk about. I have not seen this movie since the mid 90s, on a crappy transfer to VHS from an HBO airing and I don't want to see it again until it gets the treatment it deserves.