William Friedkin's footnote to his Boys in the Band, a cursory look at the heavy-leather and S/M corner of the homosexual world. This dark and unexplored nook is chosen apparently only for its voyeuristic appeal, and is observed from the point of view of a middle-class gaper. The better title might have been Slumming. Which, moreover, pretty much describes the situation of Al Pacino, an undercover cop prowling the Greenwich Village gay bars, in leather regalia, as a decoy for a lunatic killer. The real suspense in this situation has much less to do with finding the killer than with whether or not Pacino in the course of his assignment will be obliged to do anything "against nature." With Paul Sorvino, Joe Spinell, Karen Allen. (1980) — Duncan Shepherd
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