Follows the lives of heroin addicts who frequent "Needle Park" in New York City.Follows the lives of heroin addicts who frequent "Needle Park" in New York City.Follows the lives of heroin addicts who frequent "Needle Park" in New York City.
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination
Vic Ramano
- Santo
- (as Vic Romano)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaFrancis Ford Coppola showed this film to Paramount executives in order to convince them that Al Pacino was suitable for the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972).
- Goofs[45:50] Boom microphone (and camera) visible in the upper right hand corner near the end of the stick ball game.
- Crazy creditsThe 20th Century Fox logo appears without the fanfare.
- Alternate versionsOriginally rated "R" in the U.S. upon its release, some profanity and drug use was cut from the film to be re-rated "PG". The "R" rated version was released on video but is now out of print and extremely rare.
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A Junkie's World
A year before Al Pacino got his career role as Michael Corleone in The Godfather he and Kitty Winn got great reviews as a pair of junkies in The Panic In Needle
Park. This film is a brutal and realistic look at the New York's nasty world of the
narcotics addict as seen through Pacino and Winn.
Even in this world romance can bloom even among these folks on the bottom most rung of society. Still the need for the needle overrules all, a fact that narcotics cop like Jesse Vint exploits to the max.
Richard Bright who plays Pacino's older brother who is a burglar by trade and not a junkie delivers a good performance. My one criticism of he Panic In Needle Park is Bright's willingness to take Pacino in on a job. Any good burglar wouldn't rust a junkie even if he was family.
The scenes showing the heroin use are brutally realistic. One scene that jolted me was the efforts to save Pacino from a hot shot dose of pure heroin. Done by his fellow narcotics peers without any professional medical help.
Not much has changed in the junkie world in the intervening half a century since Needle Park came out. The real tragedy of this film.
Even in this world romance can bloom even among these folks on the bottom most rung of society. Still the need for the needle overrules all, a fact that narcotics cop like Jesse Vint exploits to the max.
Richard Bright who plays Pacino's older brother who is a burglar by trade and not a junkie delivers a good performance. My one criticism of he Panic In Needle Park is Bright's willingness to take Pacino in on a job. Any good burglar wouldn't rust a junkie even if he was family.
The scenes showing the heroin use are brutally realistic. One scene that jolted me was the efforts to save Pacino from a hot shot dose of pure heroin. Done by his fellow narcotics peers without any professional medical help.
Not much has changed in the junkie world in the intervening half a century since Needle Park came out. The real tragedy of this film.
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- Also known as
- Паніка в Нідл Парк
- Filming locations
- Sherman Square, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA("Needle Park" - W. 72nd St. and Broadway)
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- Budget
- $1,645,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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