
Resident Alien
5.7
12 votes
September 14, 1990
1h 23m
Overview
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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Cast

Quentin Crisp
Self
Peter Walker
The BumGilbert Stafford
Man on StreetGus Rogerson
Street PerformerMichaela Murphy
Street Performer
John Sex
SelfFelicity Mason
Dinner Hostess / Writer
Fran Lebowitz
WriterGuy Kettelhack
Writer
John Hurt
Self - ActorRichard Seiburth
ProfessorHunter Madson
Writer
Sting
Singer
Michael Musto
Gossip Columnist
Sally Jessy Raphael
Talk Show Host (archive footage)




















