This obvious take on the life of Hollywood movie star Rock Hudson contains that same hard edged humor I came to love in Girls Will Be Girls.
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07/13/04
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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
Offers up a super-queered, tinny 1950s, one that plays loose and preachy with the Passion of Rock Hudson.
12/07/04
Top CriticA campy, fun, old-fashioned romp that's just a bit light in the loafers.
11/24/04
Day's pyrotechnic dialogue and instinctive comic timing make Straight-Jacket a delight.
01/06/05
Top CriticThis clever confection adopts the genre conventions of the era's madcap romantic comedies and, later, melodramas for its tale about barely closeted movie star Guy Stone.
11/29/04
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
Though its heart is in the right place, everything gets tangled up in the film's lunacy.
12/10/04
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 CriticThe 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
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 CriticA fey and frisky farce with a fabulous fashion sense.
12/23/04
Top CriticSome of it is smart, much clever, most funny and all entertaining.
01/15/05
Until it tries to mean something, Straight-Jacket is an enjoyably manic little farce whose wit far exceeds its production budget.
02/25/05
Save your money and rent one of those old Hudson-Doris Day comedies instead.
12/10/04
Top CriticOn film, things play as flatly as any failed soufflé.
03/01/07
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
Wastes its promising premise with a wavering tone that veers uneasily between camp humor and, pardon the expression, straightness.
12/23/04
Top CriticAs 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
Whatever pleasures it holds, Straight-Jacket is highly uneven.
11/29/04
Top CriticAt 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
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