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Desperate Characters is a 1971 American drama film produced, written, and directed by Frank D. Gilroy, who based his screenplay on the 1970 novel of the same name by Paula Fox.
Sep 22, 1971 · Desperate Characters: Directed by Frank D. Gilroy. With Shirley MacLaine, Kenneth Mars, Sada Thompson, Jack Somack. Marriage of a midlife, middle-class, childless couple is in a rut. Sophie has become depressed, frigid and slightly paranoid and Otto is stuck in optimistic denial.
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- Drama
- Frank D. Gilroy
- 1971-09-22
Desperate Characters. Sophie Brentwood (Shirley MacLaine) is depressed, and not without good reason. Her group of friends is disintegrating, her Brooklyn. N.Y., neighborhood is in sharp decline...
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- Frank D. Gilroy
- R
- Shirley Maclaine
Overview. 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.
"Desperate Characters" is, nevertheless, a terribly interesting and well-acted movie that does not deserve some of the criticism it's getting. It is about a middle-aged, childless couple: Kenneth Mars (immortalized as the Nazi playwright in "The Producers") offers a deeply felt, complex performance as a lawyer whose law partnership with his ...
They're Desperate Characters, trapped in a marriage that no longer works... yet unable to break free. In a performance widely cited as a career breakthrough, Shirley MacLaine portrays Sophie in this compelling grown-up drama that, in its own jolting way, is a love story.
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Legend Films presents Desperate Characters in a good but not exceptional transfer that probably reflects the look of the original film. The many dark interiors and dank colors seem designed to smother joy in its cradle; Sophie's attractive house is a claustrophobic trap.