Desperate Characters

The story

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. 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.

Cast & crew

Shirley MacLaineSophie Bentwood

Kenneth MarsOtto Bentwood

Sada ThompsonClaire

Jack SomackLeon

Gerald S. O'LoughlinCharlie

Chris Gampel

Chris GampelMike Holstein

Mary Alan Hokanson

Mary Alan HokansonFlo Holstein

Robert BauerYoung Man

Carol KaneYoung Girl

Michael HigginsFrancis Early

Michael McAloney

Michael McAloneyRaconteur

Wallace RooneyMan on Subway