P.S. Your Cat is Dead! (2003)
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Jimmy Zoole (Steve Guttenberg, also making his directing debut) has been having bad, bad day. Not only has his one-man version of Hamlet (performed with hand puppets) just tanked, his girlfriend has left him, his cat is gravely ill, and his unfinished novel has been stolen. Plus, it's New… More Jimmy Zoole (Steve Guttenberg, also making his directing debut) has been having bad, bad day. Not only has his one-man version of Hamlet (performed with hand puppets) just tanked, his girlfriend has left him, his cat is gravely ill, and his unfinished novel has been stolen. Plus, it's New Year's Eve. So when Jimmy finds Eddie (Lombardo Boyar), a gay burglar, lurking in his apartment, he isn't exactly thrilled. On the verge of a major breakdown, he ties up Eddie and uses him as an outlet for his multitude of frustrations. Eddie, it turns out, has a few of his own, including an ex-wife who won't let him see his child. What follows is a New Year's celebration replete with party hats, rope, and some very, very deep emotional issues. Based on James Kirkwood's cult novel (Kirkwood also won a Pulitzer as the author of A Chorus Line), P.S. Your Cat is Dead was screened at the 2002 Philadelaphia Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
- Directed By
- Steve Guttenberg
- Written By
- James Kirkwood, Steve Guttenberg, Jeff Korn
- Genres
- Comedy
R,
- In Theaters
- Jan 17, 2003 Wide
- Studio
- TLA Releasing
Critic Reviews
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Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
[The Boys in the Band] is much wittier and funnier than the comparatively frantic and frenzied shouting matches devised by Messrs. Guttenberg, Korn and Kirkwood.
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Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Remains too much a filmed play.
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Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
It's another world now, which is why Kirkwood's play, adapted to the screen by actor Steve Guttenberg, feels so moldy and out of date.
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John Anderson, Newsday
It is, inevitably, an actorly exercise -- not off-puttingly so, perhaps, but at no time do we have a sense that we've transcended the stage. Or, for that matter, 1970.
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Lou Lumenick, New York Post
The performances are solid, but as a screenwriter, Guttenberg can't make the situation seem like more than a theatrical construct in a contemporary setting.
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Cast
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Steve Guttenberg
as Jimmy Zoole
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Lombardo Boyar
as Eddie Tesoro
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Cynthia M. Watros
as Kate
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Shirley Knight
as Aunt Claire
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A.J. Benza
as Carmine
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Paul Dillon
as Pidgeon
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Tom Wright
as Fred
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Kenny Moskow
as Stewart
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Frank Medrano
as Stanley
- Fred Medrano
- Kenneth Moskow
- Tom Mesmer
