Desperate Characters
- Released on
- Runtime
- 97 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Shirley MacLaine
- Kenneth Mars
- Sada Thompson
- Jack Somack
- Gerald S. O'Loughlin
- Chris Gampel
- Mary Alan Hokanson
- Robert Bauer
- Carol Kane
- Michael Higgins
- Michael McAloney
- Wallace Rooney
- Rose Gregorio
- Elena Karam
- Nick Smith
- Robert Delbert
- Shauneille Perry
- Gonzalee Ford
- Patrick McVey
- L. J. Davis
Director
- Frank D. Gilroy
Producers
- Frank D. Gilroy
Screenwriter
- Frank D. Gilroy
