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    Cruising (1980)

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    William Friedkin’s typically intense thriller finds Al Pacino overacting alarmingly as clear-eyed New York cop Steve Burns who leathers up and enters the gay, sadomasochistic underworld in order to track down a psychopath serial killer who’s preying on homosexuals – Inevitably, his hormones get very confused.

    Drawing criticism from gay groups in America and Britain (as it was almost calculated to do) Cruising pushes to the limit what is acceptable in a mainstream studio picture.

    However, while the savagery of the murders and the explicitness of the sexual practices on display are initially unsettling, they soon become numbing and, ultimately, yawn-inducing.

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    Steve Burns
    Al Pacino
    Captain Edelson
    Paul Sorvino
    Nancy
    Karen Allen
    Stuart Richards
    Richard Cox
    Ted Bailey
    Don Scardino
    Skip Lee
    Jay Acovone
    Detective Lefransky
    Randy Jurgensen
    Gregory
    James Remar
    Paul Gaines
    William Russ
    Patrolman DiSimone
    Joe Spinell
    Patrolman Desher
    Mike Starr

    Director
    William Friedkin

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