Burr DeBenning

Cruising -- Sexual thriller with Al Pacino as a young cop who must go undercover as a gay 'cruiser' in New York City.

Sexual thriller with Al Pacino as a young cop who must go undercover as a gay 'cruiser' in New York City. There's a homicidal homophobe on the streets, brutally killing gay men, and it's up to Pacino to stop him. Shot on location in several gay bars of the era.

After a gory battle to take the beach on a Japanese-held island in the Pacific, Captain MacDonald (Wilde) asks Sergeant Honeywell (Torn) to lead a squad on a perilous journey deep into the jungle to find the enemy's stronghold. The scouts soon learn that the Japanese are preparing to strike back hard and fast. In the hours to come, whose blood will soak the sand red?

Albert Finney ("Miller's Crossing," "Orphans"), Gregory Hines ("Waiting to Exhale," "Running Scared") and Edward James Olmos ("Stand and Deliver," TV's "Miami Vice") star in this eerie and seductive thriller. Finney plays a New York detective pitted against alien beasts of unnatural intelligence and power who are terrorizing the city. Vincent Canby (The New York Times) calls it a "supernatural monster movie of extraordinary stylishness in looks and sounds as well as performances." Featuring the film debuts of Diane Venora ("Heat," "Chicago Hope") and Gregory Hines ("White Nights").