Prism
Cast & Crew
Anitra Pivnick
Paul Geier
Dale Soules
Nancy Volkman
Ozzie Tortora
Frank Geraci
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Ben Heller, a young, middle-class New York lawyer, specializes in representing draft resisters and others involved in liberal causes. Despite his apparent dedication, Ben is unable to fully commit himself to his clients' or friends' progressive beliefs. In his personal life, Ben is also undecided, unfaithful to his wife Sally, a newspaper editor. Ben staunchly remains unwilling to divorce Sally to marry his hippie mistress Eva, an actress with a radical theater group. When Eva, hoping to spur Ben into making a decision, tells him she is going on a theater tour for a year, Ben makes no response. One evening, Ben and Sally go to her parents for a dinner party and engage with the other guests in an animated political discussion. Later, the Hellers throw a party for their friends, which is also charged with liberal political discussion that Ben evades. Some time later, Ben has lunch with his partner and a friend and listens passively to their argument both for and against liberal causes. As the attorney representing a homosexual organization that is staging an anti-war protest, Ben attends the demonstration but remains, as ever, unable to make up his mind.
Director
Anitra Pivnick
Cast
Paul Geier
Dale Soules
Nancy Volkman
Ozzie Tortora
Frank Geraci
Robert Root
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Prism was the only feature film release of anthropologist Anitra Pivnick, who later became director of the Women's Center at Montefiore Hospital in Bronx, NY.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1971
Released in United States 1971
