Love Streams [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray/DVD]

Director: John Cassavetes John Cassavetes

Overview

"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."

Product Details

Release Date:	06/29/2021
UPC:	0715515261111
Original Release:	1984
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	A
Language:	English
Time:	2:21:00

Special Features

New 2k digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; New Audio Commentary featuring Writer Michael Ventura; New video essay on actor Gena Rowlands by film critic Sheila O'Malley; New interviews with Executive Producer and Director of Photography Al Ruban and actor Diahne Abbott; Interview from 2008 with actor Seymour Cassel; "I'm Almost Not Crazy . . "- John Cassavettes: The Man and His Work (1984), a sixty-minute documentary by Ventura on the making of Love Streams; Trailer; Plus: An Essay by critic Dennis Lim and a 1984 New York Times piece on the film by Cassevetes

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Gena Rowlands	Sarah Lawson,Psychiatrist
John Cassavetes	Robert Harmon,Backup Singer
Diahnne Abbott	Susan,Margarita
Seymour Cassel	Jack Lawson
Jakob Shaw	Albie Swanson
Michele Conway	Agnes Swanson
Eddy Donno	Stepfather Swanson
Joan Foley	Judge Dunbar
Al Ruban	Milton Kravitz
Tom Badal	Sam the Lawyer
Risa Martha Blewitt	Debbie Lawson
Robert Fieldsteel	Dr. Williams
Raphael De Niro	Billy
Tony Brubaker	Frank
John Roselius	Ken
Jessica St. John	Dottie
Frank Beetson	Cashier
Christopher O'Neal	Phyllis George Delano
Susan Wolf	Jade Meadows Swift
Doe Avedon	Mrs. Kiner
Dominique Davalos	Backup Singer
Renee Le Flore	Renee
Leslie Hope	Joanie
Joan Dykman	Phyllis
Bronwyn Bober	Jeanine
Victoria Morgan	Laurie
Barbara DiFrenza	Mary
Cindy Davidson	Annette
Hugo Napton	Ben the Bartender
Lenny Geer	Lenny
Neil Bell	The Dog Man
George Endoso	House Man
Kelly Lawrence	Female Impersonator
Logan Carter	Female Impersonator
Christopher Morley	Female Impersonator
Michelle Conaway	Agnes Swanson
C. Frank Beetson, Jr.	Cashier
Gregg Berger	Taxi Driver
John Finnegan	Taxi Driver
Jamie Horton	Porter
Michael Stein	Porter
William Thompson	Porter
Phedon Papamichael Sr.	Taxi Driver
Jim Jones	Taxi Driver
François Duhamel	Porter
Bo Harwood	Composer

Technical Credits

John Cassavetes

Ted Allan

John Cassavetes	Director,Screenwriter
Yoram Globus	Producer
Menahem Golan	Producer
Al Ruban	Executive Producer
Ted Allan	Screenwriter