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  • Actors: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Michel Piccoli
  • Directors: Louis Malle
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Prism Leisure
  • DVD Release Date: 1 Sep 2001
  • Run Time: 105 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B00005LW42
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 53,191 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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French New Wave director Louis Malle made two pieces of memorable Americana in mid-career, Atlantic City (1980) and Pretty Baby (1978). Atlantic City stars Burt Lancaster in one of his greatest screen performances: as an ageing crook now working the numbers racket from a seedy apartment in the casino town of Atlantic City. Susan Sarandon is a waitress whose brother is on the run from the mob, having stolen a cache of drugs. She and Lancaster form an odd but engaging couple and hatch a plot to beat the odds stacked against them. Atmospheric, bittersweet, with lots of character and some neat action: it all adds up to a pretty classy offering.

On the DVD: Unfortunately, the picture and sound quality on the DVD are only average. The image is 14:9 ratio and has been taken from a print of variable quality in which some reels are barely adequate. There are no additional features. --Ed Buscombe

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4.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful story of a dying city and dying people, 27 April 2003
ATLANTIC CITY is a superb character study of a city in transition and small-time characters who live hoping to give life to their big-time dreams. The film features a smashing performance by Burt Lancaster. French director Louis Malle, presents a tightly shot film with little wasted footage, but his nostalgia for America's seamy side of history is often far-fetched, with a foreign perspective that distorts rather than clarifies. John Guare's script is taut, sparkling with original dialogue and far superior to TAKING OFF (1971), which Guare wrote for Miloš Forman another foreigner, who made it big in the staes- AMADEUS and ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST.
Aside from Lancaster's absolutely engrossing performance, the film leaves a sad impression of emptiness, similar to the vacant lots in Atlantic City where splendid hotels once stood. Lancaster somehow represents the new plastic casinos that have risen in their place, shining expensive towers without personal history, without grandeur. That is the taste left behind; one of empty waste and fragile lives. That is not to say the film is essentially cold and unforgiving, as the final scene with Lancaster and Sarandon together shows- he letting his young lover go to a life with more chance for at least some kind of fulfillment.
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