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What if Hitchcock had a baby with your weirdest uncle and that baby REALLY hated milk thieves?
TMDB
49
IMDb
59
Rotten Tomatoes
50
Audience Score
80

Union City (1980)

Neo-noir fever dreamSuburban rotDebbie Harry's eyebrows

Overview

ComedyDramaMystery

A 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.

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Content warning
paranoianeo-noirmilk
Obsession and compulsionMarital suffocationThe banality of evilPerformance of normalcy

Standout Aspects

Acting

Dennis Lipscomb's clammy, vibrating paranoia is deliciously wrong

Production

Gritty 1950s New Jersey recreated on a shoestring that somehow works

Costume

Debbie Harry serving bored housewife realness in every frame

Best for:Solo: Late night when you wanna feel uncomfy in your own skin·Rewatch: To catch every twitchy micro-expression you missed
Heads up:Violence: Sudden blunt trauma, corpse disposal played for queasy laughs
M

Director

Marcus Reichert

ReleasedSep 26, 1980
Runtime1h 26m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Paceslow
Intensitymedium
Tonedark
Feelmedium
Budget$500K
Kinesis Ltd.

Top Cast

Debbie Harry

Debbie Harry

Lillian

Dennis Lipscomb

Dennis Lipscomb

Harlan

Irina Maleeva

Irina Maleeva

The Contessa

Everett McGill

Everett McGill

Larry Longacre

Pat Benatar

Pat Benatar

Jeanette Florescu

Tony Azito

Tony Azito

Alphonse Florescu

Sam McMurray

Sam McMurray

The Vagrant

Terry Walsh

Terry Walsh

Paper Boy

Taylor Mead

Taylor Mead

Walter

Wolfgang Zilzer

Wolfgang Zilzer

Ludendorff

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Deep Dive

Trivia, insights & behind the scenes

Trivia

Pat Benatar's brief appearance was shot during her 'Heartbreaker' peak; she and Debbie Harry reportedly traded barbs about who was more 'punk' on set.

Cultural

Reichert funded this by selling his blood plasma for two years—explains the film's queasy, bodily obsession with fluids and contamination.

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