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06/24/06
Straight - Jacket (2004)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:10
Rotten:11
Average Rating:5.4/10
Reviews for Straight - Jacket
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09/26/05
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01/14/05
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12/19/04
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08/16/07
On film, things play as flatly as any failed soufflé.
03/01/07
Offers up a super-queered, tinny 1950s, one that plays loose and preachy with the Passion of Rock Hudson.
12/07/04
Wastes its promising premise with a wavering tone that veers uneasily between camp humor and, pardon the expression, straightness.
12/23/04
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
Though its heart is in the right place, everything gets tangled up in the film's lunacy.
12/10/04
Whatever pleasures it holds, Straight-Jacket is highly uneven.
11/29/04
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
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
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 CriticSave your money and rent one of those old Hudson-Doris Day comedies instead.
12/10/04
This 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
A campy, fun, old-fashioned romp that's just a bit light in the loafers.
11/24/04
A Technicolor bliss-out.
11/24/04
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
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