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Desperate Characters

5.1 average rating
★★★★★
5.1
English / 97 MIN. / 1971

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Shirley MacLaineKenneth MarsSada ThompsonJack SomackGerald S. O'LoughlinChris GampelMary Alan HokansonRobert BauerCarol KaneMichael HigginsMichael McAloneyWallace RooneyRose GregorioElena KaramNick SmithRobert DelbertShauneille PerryGonzalee FordPatrick McVeyL. J. Davis

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