Atlantic City (1980 film)
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| Directed by | Louis Malle |
| Produced by |
Denis Héroux John Kemeny |
| Written by | John Guare |
| Starring |
Burt Lancaster Susan Sarandon Kate Reid Robert Joy Hollis McLaren Michel Piccoli Al Waxman |
| Music by | Michel Legrand |
| Cinematography | Richard Ciupka |
| Edited by | Suzanne Baron |
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Selta Films
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time
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104 minutes |
| Country | Canada France |
| Language | English French |
| Budget | $7.2 million |
| Box office | $12,729,675 |
Atlantic City is a 1980 French-Canadian romantic crime film directed by Louis Malle. Filmed in late 1979, it was released in France and Germany in 1980 and in the United States in 1981. The script was written by John Guare. It stars Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Robert Joy, Hollis McLaren, Michel Piccoli, and Al Waxman.
Atlantic City is among the 41 films to be nominated for all "Big Five" Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay, and one of only eight among this group to not take home a single award.
Sally (Susan Sarandon) is a young waitress in an Atlantic City casino who has dreams of becoming a blackjack dealer in Monte Carlo. Sally's estranged husband Dave (Robert Joy) returns to her one day with the intention of selling a large amount of cocaine that he had stolen in Philadelphia and meets Lou (Burt Lancaster), an aging former gangster who lives in Sally's apartment building and runs numbers in poor areas of the city; he also acts as a caretaker for Grace (Kate Reid), an elderly invalid. Dave convinces Lou to sell the cocaine for him, but as Lou sells the first batch, Dave is attacked and killed by the mobsters from whom he had stolen the drugs.
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