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Resident Alien

09/14/1990

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1hr 23min

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Documentary

STORY

At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an Englishman in New York. Nossiter's camera follows Crisp about the streets of Manhattan, where Crisp seems very much at home, wearing eye shadow, appearing on a makeshift stage, making and repeating wry observations, talking to John Hurt (who played Crisp in the autobiographical TV movie, "The Naked Civil Servant"), and dining with friends. Others who know Crisp comment on him, on his life as an openly gay man with an effeminate manner, and on his place in the history of gays' social struggle. The portrait that emerges is of one wit and of suffering.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Quentin Crisp
  • Peter Walker
  • Gilbert Stafford
  • Gus Rogerson
  • Michaela Murphy

    Director

  • Jonathan Nossiter

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Crisp City Productions

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Quentin Crisp

Self

Peter Walker

The Bum

Gilbert Stafford

Man on Street

Gus Rogerson

Street Performer

Michaela Murphy

Street Performer

John Sex

Self

Felicity Mason

Dinner Hostess / Writer

Fran Lebowitz

Writer

Guy Kettelhack

Writer

John Hurt

Self - Actor

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