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* LousyLoversAreLosers: After {{Streetwalker}} Helen sleeps with a particularly bad client, a pimply-faced teenager, his lack of sexual ability is illustrated by the fact he also struggles to light up a cigarette for a [[SmokingHotSex post-coital smoke]].
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* HeroAntagonist: Hotch, the vice cop who leans on Helen to rat out Bobby. Say what you will about the war on drugs, he's only a cop doing his job enforcing the law.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Bobby seems to genuinely care for Helen but he's also a heroin addict, which is why he hits her when she steals his stash.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Bobby seems to genuinely care for Helen but he's also a heroin addict, which is why he hits her when she steals his stash.stash.
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* HopeSpot: A very brief one. Bobby and Helen talk about getting clean and moving to the country. They take the ferry to Staten Island and buy a cute puppy. But on the way back Bobby insists on shooting up in the bathroom. The dog, left outside on the ferry unescorted, falls into Hudson Bay.
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* HopeSpot: A very brief one. Bobby and Helen talk about getting clean and moving to the country. They take the ferry to Staten Island and buy a cute puppy. But on the way back Bobby insists on shooting up in the bathroom. The dog, left outside on the ferry unescorted, falls into Hudson Bay.the water and drowns.
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* KickTheDog: After Bobby insists that he and Helen go into a bathroom on the Staten Island Ferry to shoot heroin, the cute puppy they left outside falls off the boat into Hudson Bay and drowns.
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* KickTheDog: After Bobby insists that he and Helen go into a bathroom on the Staten Island Ferry to shoot heroin, the cute puppy they left outside falls off the boat into Hudson Bay the water and drowns.
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Al Pacino's first starring role; his performance here was what got him the part in ''Film/TheGodfather''. Creator/PaulSorvino appears in one scene as a john who called the cops after Helen stole $75 from him. Author Creator/JoanDidion co-wrote the screenplay.
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Al Pacino's first starring role; his performance here was what got him the part in ''Film/TheGodfather''. Creator/PaulSorvino appears in one scene as a john who called the cops after Helen stole $75 from him. Author Creator/JoanDidion co-wrote the screenplay.
screenplay, adapted from the 1966 novel of the same name by James Mills.
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''The Panic in Needle Park'' is a 1971 film directed by Jerry Schatzberg.
Helen is a young woman from Fort Wayne, Indiana, an aspiring artist living in New York. She has already made some bad choices, as the film opens with her returning from an illegal back-alley abortion paid for (cheaply) by her sleazy boyfriend Marco (Creator/RaulJulia in one of his first movie roles).
Helen is a young woman from Fort Wayne, Indiana, an aspiring artist living in New York. She has already made some bad choices, as the film opens with her returning from an illegal back-alley abortion paid for (cheaply) by her sleazy boyfriend Marco (Creator/RaulJulia in one of his first movie roles).
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''The Panic in Needle Park'' is a 1971 drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg.
Helen (Kitty Winn) is a young woman from Fort Wayne,Indiana, Indiana now living in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity as an aspiring artist living in New York.artist. She has already made some bad choices, as the film opens with her returning from an illegal back-alley abortion paid for (cheaply) by her sleazy boyfriend Marco (Creator/RaulJulia in one of his first movie roles).
Helen (Kitty Winn) is a young woman from Fort Wayne,
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''The Panic in Needle Park'' is a 1971 film directed by Jerry Schatzberg.
Helen is a young woman from Fort Wayne, Indiana, an aspiring artist living in New York. She has already made some bad choices, as the film opens with her returning from an illegal back-alley abortion paid for (cheaply) by her sleazy boyfriend Marco (Creator/RaulJulia in one of his first movie roles).
While recuperating from her abortion--she eventually has to go to the hospital--she meets Bobby, a heroin dealer (Creator/AlPacino). Bobby is a lot nicer to her than Marco is, and soon they fall in love. Unfortunately Bobby is a heroin addict as well as a dealer, and he drags her down into a nightmare of heroin addiction and despair.
Al Pacino's first starring role; his performance here was what got him the part in ''Film/TheGodfather''. Author Creator/JoanDidion co-wrote the screenplay.
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* BackAlleyDoctor: We don't see whoever gave Helen an abortion but Marco says they owed him a favor. They did a bad job of it, as Helen won't stop bleeding and eventually has to go to the hospital.
* TheBigRottenApple: The whole movie was shot on location in New York City--filthy alleyways, dingy gray apartments, parks overrun with heroin addicts.
* ComfortingComforter: Bobby and Helen first bond when he puts a blanket over her at Marco's house, as she lies on the couch suffering from a botched abortion.
* DownerEnding: A low-key version. There's nothing dramatic, nobody overdoses, Bobby doesn't murder Helen. In fact, they get back together at the end, and ''that'' is the downer ending, as there's no indication that they will escape the nightmare of drug addiction.
* DrugsAreBad: They are very, very bad!
* HeroAntagonist: Hotch, the vice cop who leans on Helen to rat out Bobby. Say what you will about the war on drugs, he's only a cop doing his job enforcing the law.
* HopeSpot: A very brief one. Bobby and Helen talk about getting clean and moving to the country. They take the ferry to Staten Island and buy a cute puppy. But on the way back Bobby insists on shooting up in the bathroom. The dog, left outside on the ferry unescorted, falls into Hudson Bay.
* ImplausibleDeniability: "I'm not an addict, I'm just chipping," says Bobby the first time Helen watches him shoot up. ("Chipping" being slang for casual heroin use.) He's a hardcore addict.
* KickTheDog: After Bobby insists that he and Helen go into a bathroom on the Staten Island Ferry to shoot heroin, the cute puppy they left outside falls off the boat into Hudson Bay and drowns.
* LocalHangout: A very dark version of one, Sherman Square, a small park in New York that really was called "Needle Park" in those days. It is a hangout for heroin addicts who commiserate on where to get heroin and how much it's going for. Sometimes they shoot up right there in broad daylight.
* RealityHasNoSoundtrack: No soundtrack at all, and no incidental music either, emphasizing the mood of realism.
* {{Sexiled}}: A pathetic moment in which Bobby can't come into his own fleabag apartment because Helen is entertaining a john.
* SmokingHotSex: Parodied for the only joke in this otherwise unrelentingly grim movie. The person lighting up is a pimply-faced teen who was apparently so bad at the sex that Helen guesses correctly it was his first time. And then he has to take five tries to light the match for his cigarette.
* {{Streetwalker}}
** First there's Irene, one of the heroin addicts who hangs out in Needle Park, who complains about how she walked up to a john looking for work and got arrested for robbery.
** Then, predictably, Helen starts doing this herself, as she needs money to feed her heroin addiction.
* TitleDrop: Sort of--there is much talk about the "panic" among the local community of addicts. Recently increased police enforcement has led to a shortage in supply of heroin.
* WouldHitAGirl: Bobby seems to genuinely care for Helen but he's also a heroin addict, which is why he hits her when she steals his stash.
Helen is a young woman from Fort Wayne, Indiana, an aspiring artist living in New York. She has already made some bad choices, as the film opens with her returning from an illegal back-alley abortion paid for (cheaply) by her sleazy boyfriend Marco (Creator/RaulJulia in one of his first movie roles).
While recuperating from her abortion--she eventually has to go to the hospital--she meets Bobby, a heroin dealer (Creator/AlPacino). Bobby is a lot nicer to her than Marco is, and soon they fall in love. Unfortunately Bobby is a heroin addict as well as a dealer, and he drags her down into a nightmare of heroin addiction and despair.
Al Pacino's first starring role; his performance here was what got him the part in ''Film/TheGodfather''. Author Creator/JoanDidion co-wrote the screenplay.
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!!Tropes:
* BackAlleyDoctor: We don't see whoever gave Helen an abortion but Marco says they owed him a favor. They did a bad job of it, as Helen won't stop bleeding and eventually has to go to the hospital.
* TheBigRottenApple: The whole movie was shot on location in New York City--filthy alleyways, dingy gray apartments, parks overrun with heroin addicts.
* ComfortingComforter: Bobby and Helen first bond when he puts a blanket over her at Marco's house, as she lies on the couch suffering from a botched abortion.
* DownerEnding: A low-key version. There's nothing dramatic, nobody overdoses, Bobby doesn't murder Helen. In fact, they get back together at the end, and ''that'' is the downer ending, as there's no indication that they will escape the nightmare of drug addiction.
* DrugsAreBad: They are very, very bad!
* HeroAntagonist: Hotch, the vice cop who leans on Helen to rat out Bobby. Say what you will about the war on drugs, he's only a cop doing his job enforcing the law.
* HopeSpot: A very brief one. Bobby and Helen talk about getting clean and moving to the country. They take the ferry to Staten Island and buy a cute puppy. But on the way back Bobby insists on shooting up in the bathroom. The dog, left outside on the ferry unescorted, falls into Hudson Bay.
* ImplausibleDeniability: "I'm not an addict, I'm just chipping," says Bobby the first time Helen watches him shoot up. ("Chipping" being slang for casual heroin use.) He's a hardcore addict.
* KickTheDog: After Bobby insists that he and Helen go into a bathroom on the Staten Island Ferry to shoot heroin, the cute puppy they left outside falls off the boat into Hudson Bay and drowns.
* LocalHangout: A very dark version of one, Sherman Square, a small park in New York that really was called "Needle Park" in those days. It is a hangout for heroin addicts who commiserate on where to get heroin and how much it's going for. Sometimes they shoot up right there in broad daylight.
* RealityHasNoSoundtrack: No soundtrack at all, and no incidental music either, emphasizing the mood of realism.
* {{Sexiled}}: A pathetic moment in which Bobby can't come into his own fleabag apartment because Helen is entertaining a john.
* SmokingHotSex: Parodied for the only joke in this otherwise unrelentingly grim movie. The person lighting up is a pimply-faced teen who was apparently so bad at the sex that Helen guesses correctly it was his first time. And then he has to take five tries to light the match for his cigarette.
* {{Streetwalker}}
** First there's Irene, one of the heroin addicts who hangs out in Needle Park, who complains about how she walked up to a john looking for work and got arrested for robbery.
** Then, predictably, Helen starts doing this herself, as she needs money to feed her heroin addiction.
* TitleDrop: Sort of--there is much talk about the "panic" among the local community of addicts. Recently increased police enforcement has led to a shortage in supply of heroin.
* WouldHitAGirl: Bobby seems to genuinely care for Helen but he's also a heroin addict, which is why he hits her when she steals his stash.
