P.S. Your Cat is Dead! Reviews

A two-character roundelay whose modicum of enjoyment depends largely on your own personal appetite for social commentary transparently dressed up as assertively quirky entertainment.

Full Review | Original Score: C

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.

| Original Score: 2/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

While [Guttenberg's] tenacity is undeniable, he would have been wiser to let sleeping cats lie.

The story doesn't have anywhere interesting to go once Kate, appropriately humiliated, slinks away.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Dominated by an unshaven Guttenberg mugging, ranting, screaming and hurling himself around the luxurious loft set we're meant to believe is a squalid dump that serves as a nagging reminder to Jimmy of his inadequacies.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

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another world now, which is why Kirkwood's play, adapted to the screen by actor Steve Guttenberg, feels so moldy and out of date.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Remains too much a filmed play.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

[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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In 1975, the idea of a straight man tying up a gay burglar was exotic, darkly humorous and sexually charged. In director/star Steve Guttenberg's new film version, it comes off as no big deal.

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Canned theater.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

| Original Score: 2/5

The film's completely declawed of energy and comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: F

Guttenberg's Jimmy is such a natural extension of the actor himself, which adds a dimension the original playwright never could have imagined.

| Original Score: 2.5/4

It's nicely acted by the small cast.

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Guttenberg ... obviously meant this as a major stretch, and does his best acting work since his breakthrough in Diner.

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Guttenberg is a capable director; his framing is crisp, his pacing brisk, his eye alert to telling detail.

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