Love Streams (1984)

User Rating:

8.0/10   

Director:

John Cassavetes

Writers:

Ted Allan (play)
Ted Allan (screenplay)
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Release Date:

24 August 1984 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

The film describes a few days in the life of the writer Robert Harmon and his sister Sarah. The decadent life of Robert is made of alcohol...

Plot Keywords:

Brother Sister Relationship | Brothers Living Together | Brother Sister Quarrel | Brother Brother Relationship | Based On Play

Awards:

4 wins

Cast

Gena Rowlands	...	Sarah Lawson
John Cassavetes	...	Robert Harmon
Diahnne Abbott	...	Susan
Seymour Cassel	...	Jack Lawson
Margaret Abbott	...	Margarita
Jakob Shaw	...	Albie Swanson
Eddy Donno	...	Stepfather Swanson
Joan Foley	...	Judge Dunbar
Al Ruban	...	Milton Kravitz
Tom Badal	...	Sam the lawyer
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Julie Allan	...	Charlene
Doe Avedon	...	Mrs. Kiner
Frank Beetson	...	Cashier
Neil Bell	...	The Dog Man
Gregg Berger	...	Taxi Driver
Risa Blewitt	...	Debbie Lawson
Bronwyn Bober	...	Jeanine
Tony Brubaker	...	Frank
Logan Carter	...	Female Impersonator
Alexandra Cassavetes	...	Backup Singer
Jak Castro	...	Bit Part
Michele Conway	...	Agnes Swanson
Dominique Davalos	...	Backup Singer
Cindy Davidson	...	Annette
Raphael De Niro	...	Billy
Barbara DiFrenza	...	Mary
François Duhamel	...	French Porter
Joan Dykman	...	Phyllis
George Endoso	...	House Man
Robert Fieldsteel	...	Dr. Williams
John Finnegan	...	Taxi Driver
Michael O. Gallant	...	Bit Part
Leonard P. Geer	...	Lenny
Leslie Hope	...	Joanie
Jamie Horton	...	Porter
Jim W. Jones	...	Taxi Driver
Kelly Lawrence	...	Female Impersonator
Joe Le Flore	...	Bit Part
Renee Le Flore	...	Renee
Avraham Leibman	...	Porter
Al Lopez	...	Bit Part
Victoria Morgan	...	Laurie
Christopher Morley	...	Female Impersonator
Hugo Napton	...	Ben the Bartender
Christopher O'Neal	...	Phyllis George Delano
Phedon Papamichael	...	Taxi Driver
John Qualls	...	Taxi Driver
John Roselius	...	Ken
David Rowlands	...	The psychiatrist (as Dave Rowlands)
Dean Shindel	...	Bit Part
Michael Stein	...	Porter
Jessica St. John	...	Dottie
William C. Thompson	...	Porter
Susan Wolf	...	Jade Meadows Swift

Directed by
John Cassavetes

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Ted Allan		play
Ted Allan		screenplay
John Cassavetes		writer

Produced by
Yoram Globus	....	producer
Menahem Golan	....	producer

Original Music by
Bo Harwood

Cinematography by
Al Ruban

Film Editing by
George C. Villaseñor

Production Design by
Phedon Papamichael

Costume Design by
Emily Draper
Jennifer Smith-Ashley

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Randy Carter	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Tommy Estridge	....	property master

Sound Department
Dessie Markovsky	....	sound editor

Stunts
Steve M. Davison	....	stunt double
Mike Washlake	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
François Duhamel	....	still photographer
Avraham Leibman	....	gaffer
Stephen St. John	....	Steadicam operator

Editorial Department
Omneya 'Nini' Mazen	....	assistant post-production

Other crew
Kathryn Loraine Hibbs	....	production accountant

Production Companies

• Cannon Films

Distributors

• América Vídeo (Brazil) (video)
• Cannon Film Distributors Ltd. (UK)
• Cannon Film Distributors

Runtime:

141 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:L | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:PG-13

Company:

Cannon Films

Trivia:

Jon Voight originated the role of Robert Harmon in the stage play and was originally slated to reprise his role in the film, but left the production due to scheduling conflicts and "creative differences" with Cassavetes.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)

i've ever felt these feelings, Cassavettes signed his own end.

I saw "Love Streams" in Madrid, this past summer in the "Filmoteca Nacional" inside the retrospective of Cassavetes and I was so impacted that I started to search this film, like a crazy. Cassavetes plays a very hard character making a depressed and empty of love man, a looser. And Gena also plays a wonderful character: his dizzy sister. Imprescindible, wonderful, winner with the "Golden Bear" and Cassavetes plays the best character i've ever seen in my life. Please, if you listen this film, see it and search films of Cassavetes. The best of Cassavetes is 1º: Love Streams, 2º: Husbands and 3º: Faces. His way of work allows him to transmit us a lot of feelings. Casssavetes knew that he would probably left a few months to die and he shots his own death and, making us to reflex into the human been. I cried a lot