An Englishman in New York

This is the story of out-spoken eccentric dandy Quentin Crisp as he sets off on the journey of a lifetime to the Big Apple: Manhattan, the city of bright lights.  

Film star John Hurt reprises his role as the English icon in this entertaining, funny and moving film which picks up where the 1970’s classic The Naked Civil Servant left off.  

At first New Yorkers embrace Quentin with his witty waspish ways. He is wined and dined by celebrities from across the country. A shining light of the chattering classes, Quentin befriends a young artist Patrick who starts to open his eyes to the possibility that intimate human relationships can work. Something Quentin has spent his life running away from.

However, as is so often the case, Quentin can’t help in his desire to shock people and at a public event he quips that the burgeoning AIDS crisis is “a fad”. Quentin is suddenly dropped from high society.  His career as a celebrity seems at an end. 

Then, out of the blue, he is re-discovered by English pop star Sting and is immortalised in Sting’s famous song “An Englishman in New York”.  Could this be the start of Quentin’s revival?  A sudden death will change his life forever …