Resident Alien

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Quentin Crisp

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 19%

Peter Walker

The Bum

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Gilbert Stafford

Man on Street

Age : N/A | Popularity : 9%

Gus Rogerson

Street Performer

Age : N/A | Popularity : 4%

Michaela Murphy

Street Performer

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

John Sex

Self

Age : 34 | Popularity : 11%

Felicity Mason

Dinner Hostess / Writer

Age : N/A | Popularity : 1%

Fran Lebowitz

Writer

Age : N/A | Popularity : 30%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Jonathan Nossiter
Writing	Writer	Jonathan Nossiter
Production	Producer	Jonathan Nossiter
	Co-Producer	Dean Silvers
Editing	Editor	Jonathan Nossiter
Camera	Director of Photography	John Foster Frank Prinzi
Department	Role	Name

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