Director: Jerry Schatzberg
I probably shouldn't've watched this film so close on the heels of Trainspotting. Concerning small-time hustlers and heroin addicts in New York City, The Panic in Needle Park is one of those 70s films without a real plot that makes for a good character study. Problem is, neither of our main characters have much character. All in all, that's probably the point - the addicts in the film don't have much to them, they're just looking for their next score. I'd probably like this much better had other films not stolen its beats so well. It's worth seeing perhaps for the Al Pacino performance.
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