Desperate Characters

Year: 1971

Runtime: 97 mins

Language: English

Director: Frank D. Gilroy

Drama

Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle‑aged, middle‑class, childless couple living in Brooklyn Heights, trapped in a loveless marriage. Otto works as an attorney and Sophie translates books. Their fragile existence is undermined both by their crumbling relationship and the constant threat of urban crime and vandalism that surrounds them at every turn, leaving them paranoid, scared and desperately helpless.

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