Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer a disclaimer, disassociating itself from Rossner's novel and subsequent film. Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer is a television film starring George Segal, Shelley Hack and Tracy Pollan. It first aired on October 15, 1983, on the CBS television network. Produced by Sonny Grosso and Larry Jacobson, the film was directed by Bill Persky. The film follows the investigation into the 1973 rape and murder of a young Manhattan school teacher. The film appropriates the title of Judith Rossner's acclaimed best-selling novel "Looking for Mr. Goodbar", published in 1975 and filmed in 1977. Mistakenly referred to
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film) the video, Madonna plays a woman who, like Theresa, engages in self-destructive behavior by drinking heavily and sleeping around with random men before she is ultimately murdered by a man she had selected for a one-night stand. Tuesday Weld received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and William A. Fraker received a nomination for Best Cinematography at the 50th Academy Awards. Diane Keaton was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress (Drama) and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. She was not nominated for an Academy Award for this film, but she won Best