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The Cruise

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The Cruise
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PG13,1hr 16min
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October 23, 1998
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Artisan Entertainment
Synopsis: This black-and-white low-budget documentary focuses on garrulous guide Timothy "Speed" Levitch, who talks to tourists traveling on the Gray Line's double-decker Manhattan tour buses. Getting to the core of the Big Apple, the loquacious Levitch is a font of factoids, noting the residences of such past famed figures as Henry Miller, Thomas Paine, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, John Reed, and Edith Wharton) as he delivers diatribes, spouts quotes, and offers opinions, revealing his love-hate relationship ... Full Synopsis
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A whirling dervish of eccentricity, vocabulary and avant-garde performance art, Timothy "Speed" Levitch makes as interesting a documentary subject as you'll find among people without any particular fame or noteworthy skill. "Poet-philosopher" is too ordinary a term for the star of Bennett Miller's The Cruise, a bespectacled New York tour guide with shaggy hair and an intellectually effeminate voice. ... Full Review
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