Caught

Joe and Betty run a fish shop in New York. The tiredness of the years has settled into their marriage. One day a young drifter named Nick comes into the shop looking for work and ends up with somewhere to stay as well. Joe teaches him the trade and takes him into the house. But something else starts between Nick and Betty. Robert M. Young's independent American film compresses the shape of film noir into a small shop. Edward James Olmos and María Conchita Alonso take the leads. The telling shows nobody from one side only; all three have their own case and the film picks none of them. The tension comes not from large events but from the same four walls.