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Desperate Characters (1971)

★ 5.1/10 97 min Drama United Kingdom, United States English
Screenplay by: Frank D. Gilroy
Novel: Paula Fox
Streaming: Not available

Description

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.

Top Cast

Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine Sophie Bentwood
Kenneth Mars
Kenneth Mars Otto Bentwood
Sada Thompson
Sada Thompson Claire
Jack Somack
Jack Somack Leon
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Gerald S. O'Loughlin Charlie
Chris Gampel Mike Holstein
Mary Alan Hokanson Flo Holstein
Robert Bauer
Robert Bauer Young Man

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