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Nighthawks

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A gay schoolteacher (Ken Robertson) plays it straight by day but spends his nights cruising for companionship in London bars.
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Michael Bronski Gay Community News (Boston) 08/24/2022
A solid, impressive piece of moviemaking. Go to Full Review
Ellen Cooney Sojourner 08/15/2019
In its low-key manner and its concentration on everyday reality the film emerges as one of the finest renderings of gay life in any medium. Go to Full Review
John A. Nesbit Old School Reviews 12/07/2007
2/5
Don Willmott Filmcritic.com 06/28/2006
2.5/5
Perhaps the point of the film is to prove that a gay life can be as mundane as a straight life, and if so, it succeeds Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 08/11/2005
2/5
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Ari C Aug 4 Well 1978 was a simple time and community was important and inperson connections. Nighthawk is honest about the pre AIDS era. People were free didn't worry about things too deeply. Dating was hard in the era and, in the movie which is beautifully depicted. Anyone wanting to see the old free time of just Dating and sex, this film discreetly shows it. Lovely to see a basics film. 10/10 nothing fancy... See more Michael C Feb 22 Extraordinary movie and so realistic for how the times were back then... Pretty hot and a pretty great movie!!! See more 01/27/2011 Revolutionary flick. London end of the 1970s, underground where homosexual men could breathe out and be themselves. In normal life they had to pretend and - as shown in this movie - even fear to get sacked because of talking about their sexual inclination. This movie's subject is very interesting but the script is quite boring as well. And the soundtrack? The worst repetitive synthesizer disco I have heard in a long time. Good thing is the lack of taboo. Not to be watched by conservative people. See more 01/17/2011 I found it extremely uninteresting for the first hour, having a dull lead character. I was more interested in the supply teacher and some of the one night stands. The premise was pretty much, go to club, pick up guy, have sex, arrange to meat up again once or twice. And repeat to fade. The last half hour however saves it from a rotten score for me, as when he drives his friend home and discusses his life with her, it gets a lot more interesting. It improves even further when he talks about his sexuality with his students. worth a watch, but not the classic it seems to think itself to be. See more 09/03/2010 this movie shows a guy going to the bars to pick up a different guy every night. He struggles to come out of the closet but finally does. The end scene was really strange because it gives us the impression that the main character named Jim, goes on cruising, rather than settling down with a guy. It's a really good movie regardless of his promiscuous lifestyle. See more 02/04/2010 If this film's objective is to prove that gay life is as boring as normal life, it succeeds. Ridiculously long and tedious. Plenty of gay sex, a thing I don't personally enjoy. I understand the historical context of the begginings of gay cinema, but anyways it is a waist of time unless you are doing your PHD on the subject, or similar. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A gay schoolteacher (Ken Robertson) plays it straight by day but spends his nights cruising for companionship in London bars.
Director
Ron Peck
Producer
Paul Hallam, Ron Peck
Screenwriter
Ron Peck, Paul Hallam
Production Co
Universal/Universal Int
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 26, 2016
Runtime
1h 53m
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