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| Genre: | Thriller |
| Year: | 1980 |
| Rating: | R |
| Cast: | William Friedkin, Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen |
This controversial, gritty thriller features a great performance by Al Pacino as a cop undercover in New York's gay S&M underground to find a serial killer. As he infiltrates the scene, it's like he is on another planet, and he slowly comes loose from the moorings of his own reality. There is one amazing moment, on a rare, brief visit home to his wife (Karen Allen), when Pacino rolls over in bed and looks at her with blank, dead eyes which reveal more than ten minutes of dialogue ever could. A gripping examination of a man who becomes an alien in his own world, Cruising is far more than the tawdry thriller one might expect, and it deserves another look. Robert Firsching
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