Review of The Panic in Needle Park (1971) by Jonathan Rosenbaum for Chicago Reader — 29 Mar 2003
By their own admission, screenwriters Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne spent only a day or so researching their assigned topic—New York junkies—and this early Jerry Schatzberg feature (1971) shows it, though Al Pacino plays one of the two romantic leads (along with Kitty Winn), and many of Schatzberg's fans have praised the mise en scene.
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This review of The Panic in Needle Park (1971) was written by Jonathan Rosenbaum and published by Chicago Reader on 29 Mar 2003.
The Panic in Needle Park has generally received positive reviews.
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