The Cruise

IMDb link: 0150230
IMDb rating: 7.6 (2,066 votes)
Genres: Documentary
Director: Bennett Miller
Cast: Timothy 'Speed' Levitch and others

Release date: 23 Oct 1998
Release year: 1998
Runtime: 76 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: 1990s, tour guide, new york, tourist, tour bus, talking to the camera, self centeredness, reference to thomas paine, reference to mark twain, reference to john reed

Plot:

Affectionate portrait of Tim "Speed" Levitch, a tour guide for Manhattan's Gray Line double-decker buses. He talks fast, is in love with the city, and dispenses historical facts, architectural analysis, and philosophical musings in equal measures. He's reflective and funny about cruising: he loves it, got in it to meet women, and he'd quit work if he could. His personal life is disclosed in small doses: he takes home $200 a week for 20 hours work, home is his suitcase and wherever he can flop, he's been arrested for going out on the roof tops of skyscrapers to see his city; he stands between the towers of the World Trade Center, spins until he's dizzy, then looks up.

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