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The Rewatchables

‘Cruising’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris

The Rewatchables

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.613.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan and the New York Times’ Wesley Morris put on their aviators and leather jackets to rewatch William Friedkin’s ‘Cruising,’ starring Al Pacino, Karen Allen, and Paul Sorvino. Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

An Instagram post gets an unexpected boost. A TikTok catches in the algorithm.

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0:20.0

From Spotify and the Ring or Podcast Network, I'm Alyssa Perez-Nec.

0:24.0

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0:31.0

The rewatchables is brought to you by the Ring or Podcast Network where you can find the watch.

0:38.0

Yeah, with Chris Ryan. It's a lot like cruising. Still making it. You're still making the one, right?

0:43.0

Yeah, Monday's and Thursday's great. Oh my God. It's a lot of fun.

0:45.0

You can't find still processing with Les and Morris. That's on another podcast network.

0:49.0

Different. Different. I mean, every podcast network because the New York Times isn't have one yet.

0:53.0

Yeah, well, yet. But you're you're you're a ceremonial part of our whole world. I thank you.

0:59.0

It is not in November. We flew your ass out here to do three movies with us.

1:04.0

And the first one is a little movie called Cruisin. Yeah. It's coming up next.

1:10.0

A New York City detective in search of a killer is about to disappear into the night.

1:19.0

What he sees. What he feels. What he discovers will change his life forever.

1:30.0

Al Pacino, cruising, rated R. Starts this week at a theater near you.

1:38.0

All right. Two controversial late 1970s movies. One was the Warriors, which we've already done on the rewatchables about gang life in New York City.

1:54.0

Fictional comic book, fable in a lot of ways, but it just caused complete chaos in the city.

2:01.0

And there's all kinds of great articles that you can go read on the unlearn about that. Then there's cruising William Freak in movie, which was about a bunch of murders in a gay underground area of New York City, the meat district.

2:16.0

Meat packing. Yeah. They weren't just truth and advertise.

2:21.0

A writer got a copy of the script before they started making it alerted everybody. They're protesting this movie the entire time it's being made and by the time it comes out, everybody is convinced.

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