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Desperate Characters

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Desperate Characters — 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.

  • Release date
  • September 22, 1971
  • Runtime
  • 97 min
  • Genres
  • Drama
  • Director
  • Frank D. Gilroy

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Desperate Characters — Cast

Shirley MacLaine photo Shirley MacLaine Sophie Bentwood Kenneth Mars photo Kenneth Mars Otto Bentwood Sada Thompson photo Sada Thompson Claire Jack Somack photo Jack Somack Leon Gerald S. O'Loughlin photo Gerald S. O'Loughlin Charlie Chris Gampel Mike Holstein Mary Alan Hokanson Flo Holstein Robert Bauer photo Robert Bauer Young Man

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