Directed by: Richard Laxton
Cast: John Hurt, Cynthia Nixon, Jonathan Tucker, Swoosie Kurtz
Distributor: ITV/Leopard International
Country: UK
Year: 2009
Running time: 74min
John Hurt stars in the long-awaited follow-up to The Naked Civil Servant, the ground-breaking television drama first broadcast on ITV in 1975. An Englishman in New York tells the story of Quentin’s new life when he emigrates to Manhattan aged 70. Quentin’s flamboyant wit guaranteed a life of social engagements but his outspoken dismissal of AIDS as a fad threatened to destroy his reputation. Mr. Hurt shines as Mr. Crisp in this new film which explores Crisp’s relationship with young gay artist Patrick Angus, who contracts AIDS. Writer Brian Fillis and director Richard Laxton have dramatised the Crisp legend as revealed in his diaries for the New York Native and some of his writings from Resident Alien combined with memories from his closest New York associates.
