Movie Information
Overall Rank: 4443
Average Rating: 2.7/4
# of Ratings: 27
Theatrical Release Date: 07/13/1971
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Actors: Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint, Richard Bright, Raul Julia, Kiel Martin
Plot: An unconventional love story set in Needle Park, a location in New York
City. Bobby (Pacino), a young addict who accompanies an artist named
Helen (Kitty Winn), falls in love together. Helen becomes acquainted with
the habits of Bobby and his methods of earning a buck.
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Rating of
3/4
Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 06/14/2019
Featuring an early Pacino performance, "The Panic in Needle Park" is a somewhat dated, but authentically grimy look at New York's heroin addicted underbelly.
Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
2.5/4
The Panic in Needle Park review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 05/28/2013
It was believed that this was the first mainstream film to feature actual drug injection and the role of Bobby could have been portrayed by Jim Morrison of The Doors. Bobby (Pacino), a young addict who accompanies an artist named Helen (Kitty Winn). Helen experiments and then Bobby shows her how its done. He introduces her to his brother Hank, a burglar. It's ironic that Kitty Winn won an award for this movie but had no movie career (since she opted her first love, theater) and Al Pacino became a screen legend. From the get-go one can see the potential in the then unknown young Pacino, in here we see glimpses of his gangster mannerisms from Donnie Brasco and shades of Tony Montana from Scarface. If only the direction were better such as adding dates/timelines to make more …
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