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Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

SnoopyStyle Sally (Susan Sarandon) works at an Atlantic City casino oyster bar. She's learning french and card dealer. Her estranged husband Dave Matthews (Robert Joy) ran off with her younger sister Chrissie back in Saskatchewan. He steals a large package of cocaine in Philadelphia and arrives with a pregnant Chrissie looking to sell the drugs. He recruits Sally's next door neighbor and bookmaking old-timer Lou Pascal (Burt Lancaster). Lou has been caring for bed-ridden neighbor Grace Pinza and pining for the much younger Sally.Legendary French filmmaker Louis Malle creates an air of crumbling decay. The film got nominated for the five big Academy awards but won none of them. There is no denying the greatness of Lancaster but he got beat by another legend Henry Fonda. This is a movie of characters. These people exists at the edges. It doesn't have the needed intensity but the great actors keep the characters interesting.

Lee Eisenberg Louis Malle's "Atlantic City" is as much a look at the changes that the east coast's gambling mecca was undergoing as it is a story of an aging gangster and a waitress. The elderly Lou (Burt Lancaster) talks about how the city used to be. Of course, part of what the movie shows is that even the renovation can't truly hide the gritty side of things, as the thugs are looking for the cocaine. The most famous scene is Sally's (Susan Sarandon) rubbing the lemon juice on herself to get the fish smell off, but the demolition of the old buildings, the crime bosses, and the whole end sequence tell plenty of stories as well. A very good movie.PS: Watch for an appearance by Wallace Shawn as a waiter. Malle soon afterwards cast him in "My Dinner with Andre".

Jackson Booth-Millard I spotted this film listed in the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die book, it was an easy title to remember when it was available to me, so with the two leads I noticed I was certainly going to watch it. Basically elderly long time Atlantic City, New Jersey resident and small time gangster Lou Pascal (BAFTA winning, and Oscar and Golden Globe nominated Burt Lancaster) used to think he was something big in the city. Trying to pick himself up in whatever way he can he one day meets up with Sally Matthews (Oscar nominated Susan Sarandon) who is trying to become a casino croupier and realise her dream to go to Monte Carlo. Wanting to get a better life in the gambling business, this is sidetracked by the return of her drug dealing husband who has stolen drugs from the Mafia, and he tries to sell the drugs to Lou, this is partly how they get to know each other also. So Lou and Sally are eventually together in the same room, and seemingly on the run from whoever wants the drugs or money, and obviously the do threaten if they don't get them back. Also starring Michel Piccoli as Joseph, Hollis McLaren as Chrissie, Robert Joy as Dave Matthews, Kate Reid as Grace Pinza, Moses Znaimer as Felix, Al Waxman as Alfie, Beetle Juice's Robert Goulet as Singer, Angus MacInnes as Vinnie, Sean Sullivan as Buddy, Toy Story's Wallace Shawn as Waiter and Elias Koteas as Extra. I will confess that I did not fully understand all of the story, but I enjoyed the characters played by Lancaster and Sarandon, and of course their interaction, and the moments of chasing or whatever, so for that it is a most watchable crime drama. It was nominated the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director for Louis Malle and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen, it won the BAFTA for Best Direction, and it was nominated for Best Film and Best Screenplay, and it was nominated the Golden Globe for Best Director and Best Foreign Film. Very good!

MartinHafer "Atlantic City" has a lot of good acting but I sure found it to be a thoroughly unpleasant film. You've got an aging petty crook (Burt Lancaster), a drug dealing user, a doormat of a woman (Susan Sarandon), her bizarre and spacey sister and a nasty old lady with an equally nasty dog--all of which are hard to care in the least about and one who is just thoroughly despicable. Throw them into a thoroughly seedy and run-down environment and you've got a film that I found oppressively awful and hard to watch or care about in any way. Obviously I am not the voice of everyone, as the film received five Oscar nominations--though I really cannot see why. For me to enjoy a film, in most cases I need to have SOMEONE that I can relate to or care about, but in this film there wasn't even one. By the time it was all over, I just felt I needed a bath and never wanted to see this film again.