Looking for Mr. Goodbar was sold to the movies for $225,000, and the 1977 film starred Diane Keaton and Richard Gere. The screenplay was based only loosely on the book. Rossner, who said she "counted three lines of dialogue from the book in the movie," did not approve of the production and believed Hollywood had "cheapened" the story.

An unabridged tape of the book, read by Susan Adams, has also been issued by Recorded Books.