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Desperate Characters (1971)

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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Lee M 21 Feb 2009

A decent but morally exhausted married couple deals with the inevitable onslaught of disillusionment and paranoia in middle-aged urban life. If you find the film exhausting, take that as a sign that it's point is being made.

Roger Ebert 01 Nov 2018

The movie's characters are decent people, but morally exhausted. They have no way or desire to keep going; yet they hang on raggedly to a city existence that's taken any sense of balance or sanity.

Matthew S 21 Dec 2010

A good cast, but a predictable and boring story, it's very similar to other movies that came out around the same time. It's not that bad, though, it's just not good either.

Tony Mastroianni 15 Nov 2018

Miss MacLaine, cast against type, offers an intelligent, quiet performance, indicating moods with a look, a glance or the way she walks.

Steve B 31 Oct 2008

Really good movie from the early 70's. Sophie & Otto are a conventional couple living in Brooklyn and their cozy traditional world is slowly threatened by the shadow of the new upcoming decade; drugs, violence, homeless people & peep shows are right at their door... Shirley MacLaine is very good as the disturbed housewife persuaded she had been infected with rabies.