Release Date

14 Sep, 1990

Runtime

01:23: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Resident Alien

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Actors

Quentin Crisp

Peter Walker

Gilbert Stafford

Gus Rogerson

Michaela Murphy

John Sex

Felicity Mason

Fran Lebowitz

Guy Kettelhack

John Hurt

Richard Seiburth

Hunter Madson

Sting

Michael Musto

Sally Jessy Raphael

Shi Ringer

Tom Steele

Al Goldstein

Paul Morrissey

Lenny Dean

Robert Patrick

Crew

John Foster

Frank Prinzi

Jonathan Nossiter

Jonathan Nossiter

Jonathan Nossiter

Dean Silvers

Jonathan Nossiter