Diane Keaton grabs one of her best non-Woody Allen opportunities as a deaf-school teacher who by night takes to the singles bars to pick up men in this intriguing pre-AIDS sex melodrama for adults. Luckily for her, one of her pick-ups is the young Richard Gere in a career-making cameo. Director Richard Brooks's screenplay, from Judith Rossner's bestseller, is as intelligent as it is provocative, casting the stale stench of desperation, loneliness and old sex over the pathetic characters. Keaton is wonderful but even so Tuesday Weld almost steals the show in an Oscar-nominated performance as her sister.