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Atlantic City (1981) is a sad, unsentimental, evocative and bleak character study by French New Wave director Louis Malle. The R-rated Paramount Pictures film followed the dual stories of an aging, small-time hood and a struggling oyster-bar waitress both living in the same, soon-to-be-torn-down apartment building just off the Boardwalk in the casino town of the film's title.
1981 was the year that Cinderella got to go to the ball. Among the five Oscar® nominees for Best Picture of 1981 were four highly touted major studio pictures - Chariots of Fire (which won the Academy Award), On Golden Pond, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Reds - and one low-budget, independent sleeper called Atlantic City that almost didn't get made but went on to become the critics' darling ...
Atlantic City. Available on Pluto TV. The people and the story are magnetic; the background is the city of dreams that almost came true. Atlantic City is revitalized as a resort when gambling is legalized. But the new industry also brings unsettling changes. For Lou (Burt Lancaster), 40 years a bodyguard-boyfriend to aging beauty queen Grace ...
Genie Awards. • 3 Wins & 7 Nominations. In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
For Lou (Burt Lancaster), 40 years a bodyguard-boyfriend to aging beauty queen Grace (Kate Reid), his numbers-running sideline escalates to mob involvement. A drug-related slaying leaves him with a small fortune, a new car and a new girl, Sally (Susan Sarandon), who is the perfect completion of his fantasy. Rating. R.
Apr 3, 1981 · Burt Lancaster stars as Lou, an aging mob flunkey, barely making a living in Atlantic City. Susan Sarandon plays Sally, a casino croupier whose husband Dave (Robert Joy) steals a large supply of drugs from the mob. When he is killed, the narcotics pass to the unwilling Sally. Lou, in the midst of longtime affair with middle-aged gangster's ...
Atlantic City (movie) Atlantic City. (movie) Atlantic City is a 1980 Canadian French romantic crime drama movie. It was directed by Louis Malle. Actors include: Susan Sarandon, Burt Lancaster, Al Waxman, Kate Reid, Hollis McLaren, and Robert Goulet. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures . Atlantic City was nominated for 5 Oscars at the ...
