If you loved Scarecrow, try The Panic in Needle Park
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Jerry Schatzberg, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Scarecrow, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What The Panic in Needle Park is
Here's a downer double-bill of doomed love and drug dependency. A small-time hustler and a homeless woman connect amid the heroin scene of early 1970s New York. It's not exactly date movie material, but at least it's honest.

