Desperate Characters

    Desperate Characters
    1971

    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.

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    Cast

    • Shirley MacLaineSophie Bentwood
    • Kenneth MarsOtto Bentwood
    • Sada ThompsonClaire
    • Jack SomackLeon
    • Gerald S. O'LoughlinCharlie
    • Chris GampelMike Holstein
    • Mary Alan HokansonFlo Holstein
    • Robert BauerYoung Man
    • Carol KaneYoung Girl
    • Michael HigginsFrancis Early

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