The Long Goodbye (1973)

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Nothing says goodbye like a bullet.

Directed By Robert Altman Starring Elliott Gould • Nina Van Pallandt • Henry Gibson • Mark Rydell • Sterling Hayden Genres Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime • Detective Film • Mystery • New Hollywood • Post-Noir • Thriller Studios &
Franchises National Film Registry • Kino International • Arrow Films • They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? • 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die • Roger Ebert's Great Movies • Kino Lorber Studio Classics • United Artists • Paste Magazine's 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time • 1,000 Noir Films: They Shot Dark Pictures, Didn't They? Release Info 1973-03-07T00:00:00Z March 7, 1973
Color • 112 minutes R Rated R see more films from 1973 ► see more about this film on our blog ►

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topichtennis on 12/31/2010 Reply · Like · (0 likes)

I should have been able to guess the ending of The Long Goodbye, but the movie got me. It got, because it presented itself at first as a comedy, then it went into thriller mode, and then.... well I'm not sure where it went from there but it was very unconventional. Unconventional in a good way. I was laughing and then I was shocked and then i was confused. It's good when a movie evokes so many different feelings. Today's thriller/mystery films have a hard time doing that. They let the plot take over and use the character as pawns. Here the character drives the movie, drives it in a way that only Robert Altman could.

9/10

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Caesar on 4/7/2013 Reply · Like · (0 likes)

I wish someone would send me a $5,000 bill. James Madison, baby.

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aquascape on 6/29/2013 Reply · Like · (0 likes)

You really get sunk into the atmosphere of the film. Very good and a brilliant performance by Gould. I wonder what happened to the cat?

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JC13 on 11/22/2014 Reply · Like · (0 likes)

Some great witty dialogue and wonderful performances from Elliot Gould and Sterling Hayden, plus a twisty plot make this a good one. It did have some pacing issues though. Maybe it won't be as bad on rewatch though.

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hambone88 on 4/22/2020 Reply · Like · (0 likes)

I didn’t know this was a noir movie going into it. But I’m glad it turned out to be one.

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missing_no on 7/3/2022 Reply · Like · (0 likes)

At the time of the film $5k was about $37.7k but that bill is actually worth over $100k.

A very good post noir film with slight pacing issues in the first act. The soundtrack was the only bummer, feels like a waste of John Williams talent to have basically 5 versions of the same mediocre song.

I'm also a huge Cowboy Bebop fan so it was very interesting to see the influence this had on that even if it actually didn't.

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