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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
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
Day's pyrotechnic dialogue and instinctive comic timing make Straight-Jacket a delight.
01/06/05
At 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
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.
02/22/05
On film, things play as flatly as any failed soufflé.
03/01/07
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.
07/13/04
Wastes its promising premise with a wavering tone that veers uneasily between camp humor and, pardon the expression, straightness.
12/23/04
Top CriticA Technicolor bliss-out.
11/24/04
Whatever pleasures it holds, Straight-Jacket is highly uneven.
11/29/04
Top CriticIt'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
Save your money and rent one of those old Hudson-Doris Day comedies instead.
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 CriticUntil it tries to mean something, Straight-Jacket is an enjoyably manic little farce whose wit far exceeds its production budget.
02/25/05
Some of it is smart, much clever, most funny and all entertaining.
01/15/05
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
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
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).
01/13/05
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