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The Panic in Needle Park
Drug abuse movies can be difficult to take, but this compelling acting has a matchless screenplay (by Joan Didion and her husband John Gregory Dunne) and sensational performances from childlike Al Pacino and Kitty Winn. He's the pert remorseful boy and she the delicate, afters live-in lover irresistibly haggard to him, and together their youthful dabbling in drugs drags them down into addiction and a disconcerting spiral of squalor and antipathy. Pacino's electrifying presence here convinced Francis Ford Coppola to disturbance prodigious studio recalcitrance to the untold New Yorker and cast him as Michael Corleone in The Godfather. Look finished, too, for the sake of Raul Julia and Paul Sorvino.
The Panic in Needle Park
A gruelling but hugely responsible steam nearly the influence of heroin on a New York street imagination. Schatzberg moves...
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