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Desperate Characters

1971-1h 37min
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5.3 / 10 6

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.

Directed by Frank D. Gilroy

Writers Frank D. Gilroy Paula Fox

Stars Shirley MacLaine Kenneth Mars Sada Thompson

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Shirley MacLaine

Sophie Bentwood
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Kenneth Mars

Otto Bentwood
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Sada Thompson

Claire
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Jack Somack

Leon
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Gerald S. O'Loughlin

Charlie
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Chris Gampel

Mike Holstein
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Mary Alan Hokanson

Flo Holstein
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Robert Bauer

Young Man
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Carol Kane

Young Girl
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Michael Higgins

Francis Early
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Michael McAloney

Raconteur
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Wallace Rooney

Man on Subway

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