Desperate Characters (1971)

Product Summary Publisher: LEGEND FILMS, INC. Format: DVD UPC: 00844503000323 Buy.com Sku: 208105486 Item#: V2QM4P Category Keywords: Character Study  Drama  Family Interaction  Recommended  Social Issues  Theatrical Release  Tragedy  Rating:      Features: DVD   Editor's Note A story of a childless, middle-aged couple whose crumbling marriage and daily struggle with the stresses of city life has them trapped in a hell they're too depleted to leave. Plot Summary Sophie, a freelance book translator, and Otto, a lawyer, are a childless bourgeois couple living in Brooklyn. They are locked in a disintegrating marriage and suffering a mid-life crisis. Their personal ennui and confusion are heightened by contact with people equally bored and empty, and the intruding difficulties of city life, including crime, vandalism, grim subways, and the constant wail of sirens signaling danger at all times.   Features Region 1 Keep Case Widescreen Audio: (unspecified) - English   Technical Info Release Information Studio: LEGEND FILMS, INC. Release Date: 7/1/2008 Running Time: 88 minutes Original Release Date: 1971 Catalog ID: 00320 UPC: 00844503000323 Number of Discs: 1 Audio & Video Original Language: English Available Audio Tracks: English Video: Color   Cast & Crew Shirley MacLaine Kenneth Mars Sada Thompson Jack Somack Rose Gregorio Carol Kane Gerald S. O'Loughlin Frank D. Gilroy - Writer Paula Fox - Source Writer Urs Furrer - Cinematographer Robert Q. Lovett - Editor Lee Konitz - Composer Jim Hall - Composer Ron Carter - Composer Edgar Lansbury - Art Director Herbert F. Mulligan - Set Designer Frank D. Gilroy - Producer Frank D. Gilroy - Director   Product Image