David Rosen (Strasberg) and his wife Becky (Gordon) are approaching their 50th wedding anniversary in Coney Island, where they have spent most of their married life.

But their beloved once-safe neighborhood begins to fall victim to urban blight and crime with house robberies commonplace and the boardwalk rendered unsafe by gangs.

The Friedmans, an older Jewish couple and best friends of David and Becky, feel besieged by the threat of violent crime and decide to take their own lives.

The movie proceeds in bits and pieces of sequences that undercut the actors, at the same time revealing the absence of anything faintly resembling a director's unifying vision.

The supporting roles are nicely handled by Joe Silver, Eli Mintz, Eddie Barth and Merwin Goldsmith, while Lillian Roth makes a brief, sweet appearance as a lonely Jewish widow.

Linda Manz ("Days of Heaven") wanders on and off as an anonymous member of the street gang, which is so carefully integrated you might suspect that Brooklyn now runs a busing program for muggers.