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Resident Alien

Resident Alien

19901h 23m
Documentary

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Released

Release

1990

Runtime

1h 23m

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Storyline

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.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 23m
Sep 14, 1990
Languages
English
Director
Jonathan Nossiter
Jonathan Nossiter
Production
Crisp City Productions
Crisp City Productions
Production Countries
United States of America

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