Cruising (Deluxe Edition) @ richardeward.com

Cruising (Deluxe Edition)
from Warner Home Video
starring Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox, Don Scardino
directed by William Friedkin

Features:

• AC-3
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• I liked the movie
  Yeah...An ignorant person may assume that this movie represants ALL gays, and not just a small section. And to an even more ignorant person, it would correlant rough sex with murder and violence. But to people with half a brain, it is about a serial killer in an setting that most people don't find themselves in. Is that any different than a movie about a far away place or time, say the 1800's with Jack the Ripper, perhaps?
  There are 2 reasons why I consider this a "great movie". 1) Movies are consider... more info

• A Pachino sleeper
  A Pachino movie thats not talked about to often. Disturbing and dark with a twisted ending.....buy it!

• Startling and apocalyptic. . . .
  Viewed now, with the benefit of more than 29 years hindsight, what's startling about William Friedkin's "Cruising" is its foreboding, apocalyptic (and apparently unintentional) pre-AIDS depiction of gay nightlife as it existed in the late 1970's. Though not by any means a masterpiece, "Cruising" is an intermittently fascinating study of an undercover cop (played by Al Pacino) investigation of a string of brutal murders of local gay men. Filmed in and around several gay bars and hard-core sex clubs located... more info

• A tribute to homophopic straights.
  I saw Crusing in Chicago when it came out, and after its long enough run, the number of crimes against gays in and around the larger ghettos for gays increased substantially.
  After I left the theatre with three other people, we got to our car and were chased for blocks in South Chicago by very mean looking people, who at red lights shouted epithets from the film. This happened, and Crusing initiated it.
  If it were a work of art,with merit, opening up issues, then the incident I went through might... more info

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