Desperate Characters

Name: Desperate Characters
Genre: Drama
Released: 1971-09-22
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 5.1
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Kenneth Mars, Sada Thompson, Jack Somack, Gerald S. O'Loughlin

1971 1 h 37 min

Drama

51%

Audience score8 votes on TMDB

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Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a translator of books. Their existence is affected not only by their disintegrating relationship but by the threats of urban crime and vandalism that surround them everywhere they turn, leaving them feeling paranoid, scared, and desperately helpless.

Screenplay: Frank D. Gilroy
Music: Ron Carter
Music: Jim Hall
Music: Lee Konitz
Status: Released
Release date: 22/09/1971
Original language: English