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The Panic in Needle Park

Newly Added • 1h 49m

Directed by Jerry Schatzberg • 1971 • United States
Starring Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint

A fragile romance unfolds against the backdrop of 1970s New York in this unsparing look at heroin addiction, scripted by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne and directed by Jerry Schatzberg. Taking its title from a nickname for the Upper West Side park where heroin users once congregated, THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK stars Al Pacino in his first major film role as a junkie who falls in love with a young homeless woman (Kitty Winn, winner of the best actress award at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival)—leading them both down a dangerous path of addiction, crime, and desperation.

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