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The Panic in Needle Park is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jerry Schatzberg released in USA on 30 july 1971 with Al Pacino

The Panic in Needle Park (1971)

The Panic in Needle Park
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Released in USA 30 july 1971
Length 1h50
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating70% 3.5472753.5472753.5472753.5472753.547275

The Panic in Needle Park is a 1971 American film directed by Jerry Schatzberg and starring Al Pacino in his second film appearance. The screenplay was written by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, adapted from the book by James Mills.

The film portrays life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in "Needle Park" (the nickname of Sherman Square on New York City's Upper West Side near 72nd Street and Broadway). The film is a love story between Bobby (Pacino), a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen (Kitty Winn), a restless woman who finds Bobby charismatic. She becomes an addict, and life goes downhill for them both as their addictions worsen, eventually leading to a series of betrayals.

Synopsis

In New York City, soft-spoken Helen returns to the apartment she shares with her boyfriend Marco after enduring an unhygienic and inept abortion. Although Helen becomes ill from the procedure, Marco is satisfied because he was able to procure the abortion through bartering, and thus did not have to expend any money. When Marco leaves briefly to collect some cash, Bobby, an amiable small-time drug dealer to whom Marco owes money, shows unexpected gentleness and concern for Helen. Soon after, when Helen is hospitalized for profuse bleeding, Bobby sneaks in after visiting hours and tells her that Marco has gone away. Briefly, Helen considers returning to her dysfunctional family in Fort Wayne, Indiana. However, after she is released from the hospital, she moves in with Bobby. As they are walking together, Bobby steals a television out of a parked van and pawns it for money to buy drugs. At his apartment, Bobby declines Helen's invitation to have sex until she feels better. When she awakens to find him taking drugs, he explains that he is not an addict, but only "chipping.

Actors

Al Pacino

(Bobby)Kitty Winn

(Helen)Richard Bright

(Hank)Raúl Juliá

(Marco)Kiel Martin

(Chico)
And :
Joe Santos
Paul Sorvino
Warren Finnerty
Marcia Jean Kurtz
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