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Straight - Jacket (2004)

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Reviews Counted: 21

Fresh: 10

Rotten:11

Average Rating: 5.4/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins

Genre: Comedies

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... 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 homosexual actor Rock Hudson, who starred in many such comedies. Guy Stone (Matt Letscher) is a matinee heart-throb whose popularity is matched by his libido. But when a scandal sheet threatens to reveals his homosexuality, which in the climate of the time would destroy his career, his agent marries him off to an unsuspecting secretary. When Guy then falls for gay screenwriter Rick, however, he is tempted to end his marriage and openly embrace his sexuality. STRAIGHT-JACKET satirizes classic Hollywood romantic comedies by giving them a queer twist. [More]

Starring: Matt Letscher, Carrie Preston, Veronica Cartwright

Starring: Matt Letscher, Carrie Preston, Veronica Cartwright


Studio: Regent Releasing

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08/16/07
Wally Hammond
Time Out New York

On film, things play as flatly as any failed soufflé.

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03/01/07
David Noh
Film Journal International
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09/26/05
AV Club

Until it tries to mean something, Straight-Jacket is an enjoyably manic little farce whose wit far exceeds its production budget.

Full Review Source: Salt Lake Tribune | comment Comment
02/25/05
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune

At its best when it's sending up '50s-era Hollywood and it's at its worst when trying to make a serious point.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
02/25/05
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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.

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02/22/05
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

Some of it is smart, much clever, most funny and all entertaining.

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01/15/05
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan
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01/14/05
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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.

Full Review Source: Miami Herald | comment Comment
01/14/05
Rene Rodriguez
Miami Herald

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).

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01/13/05
Laura Kelly
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
01/07/05
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

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.

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01/07/05
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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Day's pyrotechnic dialogue and instinctive comic timing make Straight-Jacket a delight.

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01/06/05
Robert K. Elder
Chicago Tribune
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A fey and frisky farce with a fabulous fashion sense.

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12/23/04
Joe Leydon
Variety
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Wastes its promising premise with a wavering tone that veers uneasily between camp humor and, pardon the expression, straightness.

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12/23/04
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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12/19/04
Michael Szymanski
Zap2it.com

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.

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12/13/04
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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Though its heart is in the right place, everything gets tangled up in the film's lunacy.

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12/10/04
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Save your money and rent one of those old Hudson-Doris Day comedies instead.

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12/10/04
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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