- Straight-Jacket
Infobox Film
name = Straight-Jacket
caption =
director =Richard Day
producer = Michael Warwick
writer =Richard Day
starring =Matt Letscher Carrie Preston
distributor =Regent Releasing
here! Films
released =November 26 , 2004
runtime = 96 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget = $1.5 million
gross = $45,497
website = http://www.straightjacket-themovie.com/
imdb_id = 0367097"Straight-Jacket" is a 2004
comedy film written and directed byRichard Day , based on his play. Done as apastiche of theRock Hudson -Doris Day romantic comedy films, "Straight-Jacket" tells the story of Guy Stone, a closeted gay actor in the 1950s who is modeled on Hudson.Plot
Guy Stone (
Matt Letscher ) is blissfully closeted, picking up tricks for one-night-stands, while capturing the country's heart as "America's most eligible bachelor" (while starring in such films as "The Love Barrel" and "I Married the Ghost"). However, Guy's carefully managed façade collapses when he comes up for the lead in S.R.O. studio's version of "Ben-Hur ". Things turn sour for the film idol when a fellow actor, Freddie Stevens (Jack Plotnick ) (famous in the film for portraying "Captain Astro" in a succession ofBuck Rogers orFlash Gordon -type serial films), decides to steal the lead in Ben-Hur away from Guy by taking a picture of Guy exiting a gay bar. Freddie plans to out Guy to the world and ruin his career. Jerry (Veronica Cartwright ), Guy's repressed lesbian ball-bustingly ambitious agent, connives to cover up the impending outing and ensure Guy the role in "Ben-Hur" by marrying her client off with great fanfare to the studio head's secretary, Sally (Carrie Preston ), who just happens to be also be a slavishly devoted Guy Stone fan. There's one hitch in all this though... Sally isn't aware the marriage is a sham.In order to avoid his adoring new bride as much as possible, Guy has Jerry sign him onto the next available film, which turns out to be 'Blood Mine' - a disastrously arch pro-union film about the corrupt goings on at a coal mine (with lines like 'how can they call this a MINE when everything is THEIRS!?!'). The studio head, in fear of the red-baiting going on in Hollywood at the time, decides - true to Hollywood form - rather than stopping production on the film to instead continue making it by watering down the pro-union content in this singularly pro-union narrative wherever possible. The young, idealistic, and terribly handsome writer of the novel that the film is based on, Rick Foster, quickly gets roped into convoluting the plot of this already-bad adaptation of his heartfelt book largely because of a chance meeting between himself the the film's star, Guy. The attraction the two men feel for one another is instantaneous and propels the rest of the plot forward.
Cast
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Matt Letscher as Guy Stone, acloset edhomosexual Rock Hudson -like actor
*Carrie Preston as Sally Stone, a wild Guy Stone fanatic and the studio's head secretary
* Adam Greer as Rick Foster
*Veronica Cartwright as Jerry Albrecht, Jerry's repressedlesbian agent
*Jack Plotnick as Freddie Stevens, a neurotic actor out to reveal Guy's secret
*Michael Emerson as VictorJackie Hoffman , who originated the role of Jerry in the stage play, was asked to reprise her role, but couldn't due to "".External links
* [http://www.straightjacket-themovie.com/ Official site]
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