Desperate Characters
Release Date: 1971-09-22
Overview: 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.
Rating: 4.857 / 10
Cast
Shirley MacLaine
as Sophie Bentwood
Kenneth Mars
as Otto Bentwood
Sada Thompson
as Claire
Jack Somack
as Leon
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
as Charlie
Crew
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Paul Leaf - Co-Producer
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Sarah E. Gifft - Costume Design
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Norman I. Cohen - Assistant Director
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Frank D. Gilroy - Screenplay
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François Moullin - Assistant Director
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