Desperate Characters

(1971)

★ 5.1 IMDb · 8 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1971

Runtime: 97 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Frank D. Gilroy

Cast: Ширли Маклейн, Кеннет Марс, Sada Thompson, Jack Somack, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Chris Gampel, Mary Alan Hokanson, Robert Bauer, Кэрол Кейн, Michael Higgins

Plot

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.