| Overview: | Welcome to the inhabitants of New York City's "Needle Park"--a world of pimps, thieves, and junkies.
In the film that Variety dubbed "a total triumph", Al Pacino--in his first major movie role--plays Bobby, a heroin addict who meets his clean girlfriend Helen (Kitty Winn) and introduces her to a new strung-out world filled with young derelicts who steal, love, cheat, befriend, and betray. A jungle ruled by addiction and passion.
Gutsy and compelling, Jerry Schatzberg's film was an instant star-maker for Pacino and his gut-wrenching performance got him the role of Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather".
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