Tema: Film
Tip: Plakat

48 x 68 cm
2 x presavijen
movie poster, AFFICHE de FILM
homoseksualac, peder

Serijski ubica brutalno ubije i iskasapi nekoliko homoskesualaca iz njujorške sado-mazohističke scene. Mladog policajca, Stiva Bernsa šalju na ulice kao mamac za ubicu. Radeći gotovo potpuno izolovano od svog odeljenja, mora da nauči i primeni složena pravila i signale ove male zajednice. Svoju devojku Nensi gotovo da više i ne viđa, a zadatak počinje potpuno da ga menja.

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Cruising is a 1980 American erotic crime thriller film written and directed by William Friedkin and starring Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, and Karen Allen. It is loosely based on the novel of the same name by New York Times reporter Gerald Walker about a serial killer targeting gay men, particularly those men associated with the leather scene in the late 1970s. The title is a play on words with a dual meaning because `cruising` can describe police officers on patrol and gay men who are cruising for sex.

Poorly received by critics upon release, Cruising performed moderately at the box office. The shooting and promotion were dogged by gay rights protesters, who believed that the film stigmatized them. The film is also notable for its open-ended finale, which was criticized by Robin Wood and Bill Krohn as further complicating what they felt were the director`s incoherent changes to the rough cut and synopsis, as well as other production issues.

In New York City during the middle of a hot summer, body parts of men are showing up in the Hudson River. The police suspect it to be the work of a serial killer who is picking up gay men at West Village bars like the Eagle`s Nest, the Ramrod, and the Cock Pit, then taking them to cheap rooming houses or motels, tying them up and stabbing them to death.

Officer Steve Burns (Al Pacino), who resembles the victims` dark-haired, slim profile, is sent deep undercover by Captain Edelson (Paul Sorvino) into the urban world of gay S&M and leather bars in the Meatpacking District in order to track down the killer. Burns is at first reluctant to accept the assignment but he is ambitious and sees a high profile case as a way to rapidly advance his career. He rents an apartment in the area and befriends a neighbor, Ted Bailey (Don Scardino), a struggling young gay playwright who does tech support to pay the bills. Burns`s undercover work takes a toll on his relationship with his girlfriend Nancy (Karen Allen), due to both his refusal to tell her the details of his current assignment and his developing friendship with Ted, who himself is having relationship problems with his jealous and overbearing dancer boyfriend, Gregory (James Remar).

Burns mistakenly compels the police to interrogate a waiter, Skip Lee (Jay Acovone), who is intimidated and beaten to coerce a confession before the police discover Skip`s fingerprints don`t match the killer`s. Burns is disturbed by this police brutality, and tells Captain Edelson he didn`t sign on for this so that they can arrest anyone just because they`re gay. Exhausted by his undercover assignment, Burns is close to quitting, but is convinced by Edelson to continue with the investigation. Edelson in turn reprimands the officers behind the interrogation of Skip.

Following a new lead, Burns investigates students at Columbia University who studied with one of the previous victims, a college professor. Burns thinks that he has found the serial killer: Stuart Richards (Richard Cox), a gay music graduate student with schizophrenic disorder who attacks him with a knife in Morningside Park. Burns brings the man into custody, but shortly afterward, Ted`s mutilated body is found. The police dismiss the murder as a lover`s quarrel turned violent and put out an arrest warrant for Gregory, with whom Burns earlier had a fight over his relationship with Ted.

With the police under the impression that the murders have been solved because Richards is in custody, Burns moves back in with Nancy. As Burns shaves his beard in the bathroom, Nancy tries on his clothes—a leather peaked cap, aviator frames, and a leather jacket—while her boyfriend looks at himself in the mirror.

Al Pacino as Steve Burns
Paul Sorvino as Captain Edelson
Karen Allen as Nancy Gates
Richard Cox as Stuart Richards
Don Scardino as Ted Bailey
Joe Spinell as Patrolman DiSimone
Jay Acovone as Skip Lee
Randy Jurgensen as Det. Lefransky
Barton Heyman as Dr. Rifkin
Gene Davis as DaVinci
Arnaldo Santana as Loren Lukas
Larry Atlas as Eric Rossman
Allan Miller as Chief of Detectives
Sonny Grosso as Detective Blasio
Edward O`Neil as Detective Schreiber
Michael Aronin as Detective Davis
James Remar as Gregory
William Russ as Paul Gaines
Mike Starr as Patrolman Desher
Leo Burmester as Water Sport
Henry Judd Baker as Tough Cop
Steve Inwood as Martino
Keith Prentice as Joey
Leland Starnes as Jack Richards
Powers Boothe as Hankie Salesman