Desperate Characters (1971)

Directors

Frank D. Gilroy

Cast

Shirley MacLaine, Kenneth Mars, Sada Thompson, Jack Somack, Gerald S. O'Loughlin

The story

Sophie (Shirley MacLaine) and Otto Bentwood (Kenneth Mars) are an affluent, childless, middle-aged couple living a rigid, insular life in a newly gentrified Brooklyn brownstone. Sophie works from home as a French-to-English book translator, while Otto is a corporate attorney undergoing a stressful, acrimonious split from his long-time idealistic law partner, Charlie Russell (Gerald S. O'Loughlin).

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