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P.S. Your Cat Is Dead Details

2002 Certificate 15
  • Rated:
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  • from 252 members

It's New Year's Eve and Jimmy Zoole is having a bad day. He's been robbed twice, his girlfriend is leaving, he just lost his job and the only one left to talk to is a burglar who he has tied to the kitchen counter! Read more

Starring Steve Guttenberg, Lombardo Boyar, Cynthia Watros
Director Steve Guttenberg
Genres Comedy

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P.S. Your Cat Is Dead

It's New Year's Eve and Jimmy Zoole is having a bad day. He's been robbed twice, his girlfriend is leaving, he just lost his job and the only one left to talk to is a burglar who he has tied to the kitchen counter!

Starring Steve Guttenberg, Lombardo Boyar, Cynthia Watros
Director Steve Guttenberg
Studio TLA RELEASING
Run time DVD: 1 hr 32 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Comedy
Language DVD: English
Hearing-impaired English
Released DVD: 14 Nov 2005
Production year: 2002
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (3) of P.S. Your Cat Is Dead

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  • Nicely acted... Engaging and moving

    • Village Voice
  • Hilarious! Razor-sharpe dialogue

    • New York Daily Times
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  • 12 out of 12 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Emascualted and disappointing

    Why would you take a play and a 1972 novel set in New York City about a bisexual Italo-American burglar and a sexually ambiguous and mildly depressive actor, which is all about opening up and finding yourself, and re-set in present-day Los Angeles?

    OK, the basic storyline could still be relevant, and re-interpreting the burglar as a Hispanic works, but removing almost every vestige of the sexual politics from a narrative for which it's essential seems just plain crazy. It's clearly been a labour of love for Steve Guttenberg, since he directs as well as stars in it, but WHY DID HE BOTHER?

    I can't say how this film would work for someone unfamiliar with the original novel since it was a great favourite of mine a long time ago: maybe it's entertaining enough, though there are a great many references that don't make sense because of the inexplicable cuts. And it's deeply tiresome to watch Guttenberg, whose only apparent way of playing depression or seriousness is by looking grumpy (like Robin Williams).

    Actually, just give it a miss, there are much better films around. And read the book if you can.

      • Rehan from London
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  • 12 out of 12 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Emascualted and disappointing

    Why would you take a play and a 1972 novel set in New York City about a bisexual Italo-American burglar and a sexually ambiguous and mildly depressive actor, which is all about opening up and finding yourself, and re-set in present-day Los Angeles?

    OK, the basic storyline could still be relevant, and re-interpreting the burglar as a Hispanic works, but removing almost every vestige of the sexual politics from a narrative for which it's essential seems just plain crazy. It's clearly been a labour of love for Steve Guttenberg, since he directs as well as stars in it, but WHY DID HE BOTHER?

    I can't say how this film would work for someone unfamiliar with the original novel since it was a great favourite of mine a long time ago: maybe it's entertaining enough, though there are a great many references that don't make sense because of the inexplicable cuts. And it's deeply tiresome to watch Guttenberg, whose only apparent way of playing depression or seriousness is by looking grumpy (like Robin Williams).

    Actually, just give it a miss, there are much better films around. And read the book if you can.

      • Rehan from London
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