Where was Cruising filmed?
1980 film, directed by William Friedkin.
- New York City
The story is set in New York City, so the filming stayed close to the setting.
Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed
- Set in
- New York City
- Filmed in
- New York City
About Cruising
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- Released
- 1980
- Director
- William Friedkin
- Cast
- Al PacinoPaul SorvinoKaren AllenRichard CoxDon ScardinoJames RemarJoe SpinellEd O'NeillWilliam RussMike Starr
- Genre
- CrimeErotic ThrillerLgbtq-relatedDetectiveThriller
The story
Amidst a hot summer in New York City, the dismembered body parts of men begin appearing in the Hudson River.
He quickly befriends neighbor Ted Bailey, a struggling gay playwright, but overhears the turmoil in Ted's relationship with his overbearing dancer boyfriend Gregory.
Disturbed by the gay bashing, Burns considers quitting, but Edelson convinces him to continue by reprimanding the officers involved in Skip's interrogation.
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