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Cruising
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Excellent DVD of uneven, violent thriller "Cruising"
I watched both the movies set in gay milieu directed by William Friedkin (born in Chicago in 1935) back to back. The 1970 screen incarnation of the Off-Broadway cast of Mart Crowley’s “Boys in the Band” was daring, though not especially controversial at the time. It was... Read full review »
Catastrophic 'Cruising'
If ever there were a filmmaker ill-suited to adapt Gerald Walker’s fine 1970 novel Cruising, William Friedkin would most certainly poll near the top of the list. Here is a director who displayed in the excellent, hard-driving action pictures The French Connection and To Live and Die in L.A. a... Read full review »
Cruising - 1980
Director William Friedkin wanted to make his film Cruising so realistic he scouted the underground S&M bars in NY prior to filming. In fact, most of the participants shown in the bars are the actual clientele which were hired as extras for the filming. Friedkin asked them to act as they usually do... Read full review »
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Cruising [vhs Tape] (1996) Al Pacino; Paul Sorvino;
Perhaps the most controversial film of its time due to its portrayal of homosexuality, the story follows a cop as he enters Manhattan's gay scene in search of a psychotic killer.
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Cruising [VHS]
Sexual thriller with Al Pacino as a young cop who must go undercover as a gay 'cruiser' in New York City. There's a homicidal homophobe on the streets, brutally killing gay men, and it's up to Pacino to stop him. Shot on location in several gay bars of the era.
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| Stars | Al Pacino | |
| Actors | Karen Allen | |
| Available Formats | VHS | |
| Directors | William Friedkin | |
| UPC | 085391167969 | |
| Genre | Dramas | |
| Subgenre | Suspense • Drama | |
| MPAA Rating | R (MPAA) | |
| Release Date | 1980 | |
| Running Time | 1hr 42min | |
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| (03/01/2008, p.122, Damien Love): 3 stars out of 5 -- "CRUISING has a rare, clammy, heat -- the bleak fever dream of a director fatally hooked on his own lurid, vivid, imagination." | ||
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