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Atlantic City (1980)  link to Atlantic City on IMDb  

Number: 2322

poster Atlantic City

IMDb Rating:
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7.4/10 (12370 votes)

Country: France, 104 minutes

Spoken Languages: English, French

Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Romance

Director(s): Louis Malle

Video Codec: Unknown

Storyline:
Atlantic City is a place where people go to realize their dreams, the promise of the future manifested by the demolition of the old crumbling buildings to be replaced by new hotels and casinos. Someone who recently came to Atlantic City for that promise is native Moose Javian (Saskatchewan) Sally Matthews, who currently works as a waitress at a hotel oyster bar, but who is training to be a black jack croupier and wants to be more cultured, such as learning French, in order to work at the casinos in Monte Carlo. Another dreamer who came to Atlantic City decades ago is Lou Pascal, who has long worked as a numbers runner and who claims to have been a cellmate and thus implied confidante of Bugsy Siegel. Although Lou still dresses to the standard to which he is accustomed, his dream long died as he only works penny ante stuff for Fred, most of his current income from being the kept man of widowed recluse, Grace Pinza. Grace too came to Atlantic City to fulfill her dreams - most ...

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Cast:

photo Burt Lancaster Burt Lancaster Lou
photo Susan Sarandon Susan Sarandon Sally
photo Kate Reid Kate Reid Grace
photo Michel Piccoli Michel Piccoli Joseph
photo Hollis McLaren Hollis McLaren Chrissie

Medium: Unknown,

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1