If you loved The Panic in Needle Park, try Scarecrow
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 The Panic in Needle Park, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Scarecrow is
Hustlers with good boots and bad luck wander, drink with barflies and dream of a steel-gray carwash in Pennsylvania until the road runs out and none of them know why. A sun-bleached drift toward nowhere stalls on a carnival of strangers. Two broken men carry the whole weary trip on their shoulders. 1973’s rain-damp fatalism in jeans.

