Love Streams (1984)
- Starring:
- Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, (more)
- Director(s):
- John Cassavetes
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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, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Gena Rowlands - Sarah Lawson
- Diahnne Abbott - Susan
- Margaret Abbott - Margarita
- John Roselius - Ken
- Eddy Donno - Stepfather Swanson
- Doe Avedon - Mrs. Kiner
- Gregg Berger - Taxi Driver
- John Finnegan - Taxi Driver
- Susan Wolf - Jade Meadows Swift
- Lenny Geer - Lenny
- Phedon Papamichael - Taxi Driver
- William Thompson - Porter
- David Rowlands - Psychiatrist
- Francois Duhamel - Porter
- Joan Dykman - Phyllis
- Jamie Horton - Porter
- Robert Fieldsteel - Dr. Williams
- Risa Martha Blewitt - Debbie Lawson
- Alexandra Cassavetes - Backup Singer
- John Cassavetes - Robert Harmon
- Seymour Cassel - Jack Lawson
- Jakob Shaw - Albie Swanson
- Michelle Conaway - Agnes Swanson
- Christopher Morley - Female Impersonator
- Tom Badal - Sam the Lawyer
- Raphael de Niro - Billy
- Leslie Hope - Joanie
- Kelly Lawrence - Female Inpersonator
- Logan Carter - Female Impersonator
- C. Frank Beetson, Jr. - Cashier
- Al Ruban - Milton Kravitz
- Michael Stein - Porter
- Jim W. Jones - Taxi Driver
- Neil Bell - The Dog Man
- Joan Foley - Judge Dunbar
- Dominique Davalos - Backup Singer
- Tony Brubaker - Frank
- Director(s):
- John Cassavetes
- Writer(s):
- Ted Allan, John Cassavetes
- Producer(s):
- Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus
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- 1984 - Love Streams - Berlin International Film Festival - Golden Bear
