Fat City / Panic in Needle Park
Details for In Theaters
Theaters near
Calendar for movie times. is selected.
Skip to Movie and TimesMovie Times Calendar
Loading calendar
Filter movie times by screen format. is selected.
Featured News
Frequently Asked Questions
- How long is Fat City / Panic in Needle Park?
- Fat City / Panic in Needle Park is 3 hr 30 min long.
- What is Fat City / Panic in Needle Park about?
- FAT CITY, 1972, Columbia (Sony Repertory), 100 min. John Huston, his versatility truly liberated by an evolving New Hollywood cinema, directed this gritty, slice-of-life adaptation of Leonard Gardner's novel about two boxers, one naïve neophyte (Jeff Bridges), and one on his way down (a brilliant Stacey Keach) with his perpetually drunken mate (the great Susan Tyrell). PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK, 1971, 20th Century Fox, 110 min. Then-newcomers Al Pacino and Kitty Winn are a junkie Romeo and Juliet in director Jerry Schatzberg's harrowing, near-documentary study of heroin addiction on the streets of New York City. Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne's economic, compassionate screenplay plots the couple's self-destructive spiral with relentless logic that is neither patronizing nor preachy.