The Panic in Needle Park (1971)

110 min · Drama, Melodrama, Social Drama, drama film

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Directors

Jerry Schatzberg

Cast

Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Larry Marshall, Alan Vint, Richard Bright, Kiel Martin, Warren Finnerty, Raúl Juliá, Nancy MacKay

The story

In New York City, Helen returns to the apartment that she shares with her boyfriend Marco after an unhygienic and inept abortion. Helen becomes ill, and Bobby, an amiable small-time drug dealer to whom Marco owes money, shows gentleness and concern for her. When Marco leaves, Helen considers returning to her family, but instead moves in with Bobby.

Catalogue themes and tags

Abortion, Addicted, Arbeitslosigkeit, Break-in, Crack, Dissociation, Drogenhändler, Drug Addiction, Drug Scene, Drug Traffic, Drugs, Elend, Existential Crisis, Fall From Grace, Flush, Gefängnis, Geldnot, Heroin, Horizontales Gewerbe, Housebreaking, Human Weakness, Isolation, Junkie, Kampf um Existens, Kriminalfälle, Male Prostitute, Pfleger, Pimp scene, Police, Poverty, Prostitute, Pärchen, Red-Light Disctrict, Relation, Runaway, Social Isolation, abgelegen, surrender

Genres

Drama, Melodrama, Social Drama, drama film

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