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  • 1998
  • PG-13
  • Artisan Entertainment
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 1998
  • PG-13
  • Artisan Entertainment
  • 1 h 16 m

Summary Timothy "Speed" Levitch, a tour guide for Manhattan's Gray Line double-decker buses, 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...

Directed By: Bennett Miller

  • 1998
  • PG-13
  • Artisan Entertainment
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 1998
  • PG-13
  • Artisan Entertainment
  • 1 h 16 m

The Cruise

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary Timothy "Speed" Levitch, a tour guide for Manhattan's Gray Line double-decker buses, 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...

Directed By: Bennett Miller

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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69% Positive
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23% Mixed
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8% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
69
69% Positive
9 Reviews
23% Mixed
3 Reviews
8% Negative
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100
The Cruise validates beautifully a life that is its own validation.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
89
Miller has somehow, inadvertently by his own admission, managed to capture the essence of the human throng, in all its maddening, scintillating permutations. It's a tour unlike any you have ever taken.
By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW
80
As much as Mr. Levitch's voice grates, you can't help but admire the zest for life of this heroically independent but impossibly self-centered crank.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
75
Most of the credit for this successful effort goes to Miller, who simply pointed a camera at Levitch for hours and stayed out of the way. This laid-back direction helps Miller avoid that self-conscious "documentary" seriousness, edgy shots and editing that tells the audience that this is all so very important. [18 Dec 1998, p.E3]
By Joe Holleman FULL REVIEW
75
I get letters from people who would like to make a movie. My advice could be, find a subject like Speed Levitch and follow him around with a video camera. That's what Bennett Miller did--directing, producing and photographing The Cruise.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
50
Perhaps a little more back story would have given Levitch some dimension and given us a bit more incentive to commiserate with him. As it is, a little Levitch goes a long way. [20 Nov 1998, p.C4]
By Jay Carr FULL REVIEW
30
The Cruise is being hailed as a harbinger of a future in which indie film will be liberated by low-cost technology. If this is where we're going, I want off the bus.
By Amy Taubin FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Charter Films Inc.
Release Date Oct 23, 1998
Duration 1 h 16 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline Fasten your seat belts
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Newport International Film Festival, Rhode Island
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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