Love Streams

(1984)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 150 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1984

Runtime: 141 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Джон Кассаветис

Cast: Джина Роулендс, Джон Кассаветис, Дайэнн Эбботт, Сеймур Кэссел, Margaret Abbott, Jakob Shaw, Michele Conaway, Eddy Donno, Joan Foley, Al Ruban

Plot

Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.

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, cigarettes, and short-time relationships with women; women he interviews for a book, he spends a weekend with at a casino or fall in love with for the fun of an evening. Having no constraints, he his unable to be responsible for anything including the care of his son, leaving him alone in an hotel room and teaching the 8-years old boy how to drink. His life is made of his own phantasms as an artist. His sister is divorcing from her husband because of her exuberant and insane behavior. She scares her daughter Debbie who prefers to stay with her father, a decision that hurts Sarah very deeply and reinforces her nervous breakdown. Most of the movie takes place in the house of Robert. We watch Robert and Sarah struggling with their own lives. As the movie progresses, the house gets empty little by little...