Atlantic City

Atlantic City

  • Director: Louis Malle
  • Countries of origin: France, Canada
  • Language: English, French
  • Release date: April 3, 1981
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
  • Also known as: Atlantic City, USA
  • "Atlantic City" is a romantic crime film directed by Louis Malle and starring Burt Lancaster , Susan Sarandon , Kate Reid and Robert Joy . It was released at the Venice Film Festival on September 2, 1980   .
    The film tells the story of Lou Barshall, Sally Matthews and Grace Pinza struggling to survive in their own way in Atlantic City, where old and new eras alternate   .

    Details

    • Release date April 3, 1981
    • Filming locations Lucy the Margate Elephant - 9200 Atlantic Avenue, Margate, New Jersey, USA
    • Production companies International Cinema Corporation (ICC), Selta Films, Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC)

    Box office

    Budget

    $7,200,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $12,729,675

    Gross worldwide

    $12,729,675

    Movie reviews

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    • By Nora 2022-03-14 08:01:02

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      The demolished building at the beginning hints at the background of all the characters in the film. Destroy the past and rebuild the future. This is a story about Americans pursuing the American Dream. The hostess, Sally, works in Atlantic City casinos and learns to be the bookmaker. Her dream is to learn solid skills and enough money to pan for gold in Las Vegas, the biggest casino city. Her husband and her pregnant sister came to take refuge with her, who seemed to come from a small place...

    • By Gerry 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      A thousand sails pass by the side of the sinking boat, and a thousand trees spring ahead of the sick tree

      In 1976, the people of the state voted to open a casino, and the renovation was completed in 1978, making it the second largest casino in the United States. The film was shot in 1980, and Louis Mahler keenly seized this opportunity.

      It is also thanks to the transformation of Atlantic City that the idea of ​​the film has been sublimated. Atlantic City becomes the casino's new and the bland old old, Susan Sarandon's far-flung new and Bertrandcaster's...

    • By Frances 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      ? Change of times

      In this era of being held hostage by material, the rapid development of society seems to never stop.

      Life has become a trivial matter, there is a life blinded by material things, there is romance promoted by desire, there is the fear of being embezzled, there is confusion about the unknown, and there is unspoken optimism.

      In the late 1970s, Atlantic City, which had just opened its casino industry, was in the midst of a transition between the old and the new. The old man,...

    • By Rubye 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      The old man chats about teenage madness

      From Ma Gongzi's point of view, Atlantic City is like a rising third world city, such as Japan in the 1970s, South Korea in the 1980s, Taiwan in the 1990s, and now the mainland. People are running around to make money in a materialistic society. The instability of life and the happiness that comes from money are both living and living together. The current Chinese people may experience it much better than the Americans who watch this movie again now.

            It is said that although...

    • By Alexys 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      "Atlantic City": Adventures of a Boring Old Man [Golden Lion Award at the 36th Venice Film Festival]

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      The film won the Golden Lion Award at the 36th Venice Film Festival in 1980.

      The film tells the story of an old man. The male protagonist is a white-haired old man who relies on taking care of the old woman downstairs for a living, and she is also used to peeping at the young female neighbor next door. One day, the husband of the female neighbor who eloped with her sister brought her sister...

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    • By Dock 2022-04-24 07:01:25

      After checking the vacancies, people left with the sunset, and the machinery of Sunset City...

    • By Reagan 2022-04-24 07:01:25

      Whether romantic or passionate, it's all temporary. When making decisions, they are very...

    • By Hertha 2022-04-24 07:01:25

      There is also a bit of a gallows feeling. I didn't want to do this, but I did it, and I let it go. But aside from the ending, it was just too boring - wanted to feel cool, I...

    • By Janelle 2022-04-24 07:01:25

      In a materialistic world, this is probably the right way to...

    • By Frances 2022-04-24 07:01:25

      Sentimental...

    Movie plot

    In the late 1970s, Atlantic City, which had just opened its casino industry, was in the midst of a transition between old and new. Sally Matthews ( Susan Sarandon ) works as a waitress at a legal casino and follows a Frenchman to learn how to be the bookmaker, hoping to one day make a fortune in Las Vegas. Lou Bascher ( Burt Lancaster ) , who shares an apartment with Sally Matthews , is now the lover and housekeeper of the old widow...
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    Movie quotes

    • Fred: You look like a fire sale.

      Dave: Look, I've been on the road six weeks. Okay? You clean me up, I'm a fuckin' Prince Charles.

    • Sally: Why are you doing this for me?

      Lou: Hey, it's nothing, Sinatra gives wings to hospitals. We all do what we can.

    • Lou: I made love to this woman today.

      Sally: Daddy, please!

      Lou: I held her in my arms. I made her happy.

      Bus Driver: Let's not be naughty.

      Sally: [to Lou] It's gonna be okay.

      [to Bus Driver]

      Sally: That's alright. It's alright.

      [to Lou]

      Sally: It's gonna be alright. We'll take good care of you.

      Lou: I'm dangerous! People come to me from Las Vegas! I know Bugsy Siegel! I was his cellmate!