The Panic in Needle Park
1971 · TMDB 6.8
Directed by Jerry Schatzberg
A stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless girl who finds in her relationship with Bobby the stability she craves.
Why it matters
Jerry Schatzberg's raw, documentary-like portrait of a young couple in New York City whose love is inseparable from their heroin use. Al Pacino's Bobby and Kitty Win's Helen cling to each other as their lives unravel, their relationship both enabling and destroying their addictio...
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Released
- 1971-06-01
- Studio
- Dunne-Didion-Dunne
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 6.8
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