Affectionate portrait of Timothy "Speed" Levitch, a tour guide for Manhattan's Gray Line double-decker buses.
Direction
Miller lets Speed breathe—no talking heads, just pure character immersion.
Cinematography
Grainy black-and-white NYC looks like a memory you're not sure you lived.
Director
Bennett Miller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Speed became a minor cult figure, later appearing in Waking Life and Richard Linklater's orbit. The film essentially launched a career of being professionally eccentric.
Bennett Miller shot this over months of riding incognito on Speed's bus, never knowing if Speed would perform or simply exist. Most footage is stolen observation.
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