Main Cast: Steve Guttenberg, Lombardo Boyar, Cynthia M. Watros, Shirley Knight, A.J. Benza
Release Year: 2003
Country: US
Run Time: 92 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
Jimmy Zoole (Steve Guttenberg, also making his directing debut) has been having bad, bad day. Not only has his one-man version of Hamlet (performed with hand puppets) just tanked, his girlfriend has left him, his cat is gravely ill, and his unfinished novel has been stolen. Plus, it's New Year's Eve. So when Jimmy finds Eddie (Lombardo Boyar), a gay burglar, lurking in his apartment, he isn't exactly thrilled. On the verge of a major breakdown, he ties up Eddie and uses him as an outlet for his multitude of frustrations. Eddie, it turns out, has a few of his own, including an ex-wife who won't let him see his child. What follows is a New Year's celebration replete with party hats, rope, and some very, very deep emotional issues. Based on James Kirkwood's cult novel (Kirkwood also won a Pulitzer as the author of A Chorus Line), P.S. Your Cat is Dead was screened at the 2002 Philadelaphia Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
Paul Dillon - Pidgeon; Tom Wright - Fred; Kenny Moskow - Stewart; Frank Medrano - Stanley
Credit
Marni Banack - Consultant/advisor, Derek Vaughan - Co-producer, Jim Simone - First Assistant Director, Steve Guttenberg - Director, Derek Vaughan - Editor, Dean Grinsfelder - Composer (Music Score), Mark A. Levy - Musical Direction/Supervision, Mark Harper - Production Designer, David Armstrong - Cinematographer, Christopher Vogler - Producer, Kyle A. Clark - Producer, Jonathan Wolff - Sound/Sound Designer, Steve Guttenberg - Screenwriter, Jeff Korn - Screenwriter, Michael Bell - Screenwriter, James Kirkwood, Jr. - Book Author
Abandoned by his girlfriend on New Year's Eve, and still unaware that his beloved cat Tennessee (named after the playwright Tennessee Williams) has died in an animal clinic, hopeless New York actor Jimmy Zoole is feeling depressed and unstable when he happens across a cat burglar, Vito, in his apartment. Furious, he beats the stranger unconscious and ties him to his kitchen sink. Jimmy begins to torment his terrified captive; however, the unlikely pair soon establish a certain bond. Vito once had a wife who left him after she discovered he was gay, and took their child with her. Jimmy questions his own orientation as his relationship to Vito takes on a homosexual dimension, and decides to use his prisoner to exact revenge on his former lover. In the end, Jimmy and Vito, now working as a team, are able to sell a stash of stolen drugs and run away together.
In 2002, Steve Guttenberg (better known for the Police Academy series of films) combined the play and the novel into a movie, which he co-wrote with comedian Jeff Korn, and directed, starring himself as the writer, Cynthia Watros as his newly-ex-girlfriend Kate and Lombardo Boyar as the youthful burglar Eddie. It was screened at the 2002 Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
