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Kathy Acker (writer)
Bette Gordon (screen story)
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Release Date:
8 March 1985 (USA) more
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Cast

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Sandy McLeod ... Christine
Will Patton ... Mark
Richard Davidson ... Louie

Luis Guzmán ... Jose
Nan Goldin ... Nan
Lee R. Tucker ... Projectionist
Peter Rizzo ... Driver
Mark Boone Junior ... Porn Customer / Business Manager (as Mark Boone Jr.)
April Andrew
Suzanne Fletcher
Peyton Green
Cookie Mueller
Norma Angelica Rodriguez (as Norma Rodriguez)
Sally Rodwell
Jerry Delamater
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100 min
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Errors in geography: The Variety Photoplays Theatre was actually on 3rd Avenue and 14th Street, some thirty blocks away from the Times Square area. more

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Follow That Cab!, 11 July 2004
Author: rdu from Washington DC

When adult theaters such as the one profiled in this film were prolific, feminist activists would lead tours of Times Square to bring attention to their cause.

The main character's regular and extensive swimming exercise is a good analogy for the pace of the film. Steady, slow, heavy.

One amusing note, when our heroine follows her mystery man who has just taken a cab, she jumps into another cab, the sax is on the soundtrack, no dialouge, but you can read her lips: "Follow that Cab!"

It's also ironic that she follows him to the Fulton Street Fish Market, which in real life became the focus of an extensive organized crime probe.

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