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Desperate Characters
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.
Where to watch Desperate Characters
Desperate Characters is available to rent or buy from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube and Fandango At Home.
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
- Chris Gampel as Mike Holstein
- Mary Alan Hokanson as Flo Holstein
- Robert Bauer as Young Man
- Carol Kane as Young Girl
- Michael Higgins as Francis Early
- Michael McAloney as Raconteur
- Wallace Rooney as Man on Subway
Details
- Director
- Frank D. Gilroy
- Released
- September 22, 1971
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Drama
- Studio
- T.D.J. Productions Inc. and ITC Entertainment
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 5.1 / 10 from 8 votes
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