desperate characters

Director: frank d. gilroy

Actor: shirley maclaine,kenneth mars,sada thompson,jack somack

Data Published: Wed Sep 22 1971

Genres: Drama

Key Words: denial,middle class,forced sex,marital rape,vandalism

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066986/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperate_Characters

Description: Desperate Characters is a movie starring Shirley MacLaine, Kenneth Mars, and Sada Thompson. Marriage of a midlife, middle-class, childless couple is in a rut. Sophie has become depressed, frigid and slightly paranoid and Otto is...

Plot: Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she is 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. The film details their fragile emotional and psychological states as they interact with each other and their friends.