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Atlantic City

Atlantic City - Movie Trailer

1980 | R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Romance | DCP

French emigre Louis Malle invited playwright John Guare to collaborate on a film. Their shared interest in Atlantic City, New Jersey, with the promise of its big new hotels and casinos clashing with its seedy underbelly, resulted in this enduring gem that earned five Oscar nominations (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay). Susan Sarandon is radiant as a small-time dreamer, and Burt Lancaster has one of his great late-career roles as a past-his-prime gangster with a deep nostalgia for his younger days. (“The Atlantic Ocean was something then…”)

“Louis Malle directed, but this beautifully filigreed, sensitive, and funny fable belongs to screenwriter John Guare. It continues the themes of Guare’s stage plays, examining problems of connection and protection, births and rebirths, beginnings and ends, and does so with some of the most elegant dialogue ever heard in an American film.” Dave Kehr, The Chicago Reader

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Director: Louis Malle

Writers: John Guare

Stars: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid