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08/16/07
Straight - Jacket (2004)
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Reviews Counted: 21
Fresh: 10
Rotten:11
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Theatrical Release:Nov 26, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: Like DOWN WITH LOVE, STRAIGHT-JACKET plays fast and loose with the conventions of the 1950s Technicolor romantic comedy. Appropriately, it is also inspired by the true-life story of closeted... [More]
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Reviews for Straight - Jacket
On film, things play as flatly as any failed soufflé.
03/01/07
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06/24/06
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09/26/05
Until it tries to mean something, Straight-Jacket is an enjoyably manic little farce whose wit far exceeds its production budget.
02/25/05
At its best when it's sending up '50s-era Hollywood and it's at its worst when trying to make a serious point.
02/25/05
As satire, it is often deliciously barbed and catty, the jokes flying fast and furious ... but when it tries to make its points seriously, it immediately loses me.
02/22/05
Some of it is smart, much clever, most funny and all entertaining.
01/15/05
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01/14/05
It's a shame, then, that Straight-Jacket turns dour and melodramatic ... The light-hearted fun seeps out of the movie, replaced by trite interludes of coming-out angst, McCarthy-era persecution and even gay-bashing.
01/14/05
The perkiness with a capital P, gorgeous set and great color can't completely salvage an occasionally strong cast and middling story (and don't forget a lousy, if literal, title).
01/13/05
Movies can never again be so corny, campy and PC clumsy as some of the howlers of the 1950s and '60s. But Straight-Jacket has a spiffy and gay (both senses) time joining the party.
01/07/05
It has verve, color and energy, but there's something fundamentally bogus about it, and whenever it takes a turn into seriousness, entire moments fall apart.
01/07/05
Top CriticDay's pyrotechnic dialogue and instinctive comic timing make Straight-Jacket a delight.
01/06/05
Top CriticA fey and frisky farce with a fabulous fashion sense.
12/23/04
Top CriticWastes its promising premise with a wavering tone that veers uneasily between camp humor and, pardon the expression, straightness.
12/23/04
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12/19/04
This featherweight spoof of closeted, Red-baiting Hollywood in the mid-1950's is played as such an exaggerated cartoon that its political outrage is dissipated by its stridency.
12/13/04
Top CriticThough its heart is in the right place, everything gets tangled up in the film's lunacy.
12/10/04
Save your money and rent one of those old Hudson-Doris Day comedies instead.
12/10/04
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