Atlantic City

Atlantic City

1980 · 104 min · EN · R · 6.8 (233 votes)
Dir. Louis Malle · Starring Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Michel Piccoli, Hollis McLaren, Robert Joy · Music Michel Legrand

She made him become what he always wanted to be - a lover, a hero, a rich man...and a killer!

CrimeDramaRomance

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.

VIBE

A hazy, sun-drenched melancholy permeates this tale of doomed romance and desperate ambition. It feels like a slow-motion tumble into a world of faded glamour, where every choice carries the weight of consequence and the air is thick with regret.

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