Directed by Richard Day US, 2004, 35mm, 96 min. East Coast Premiere

Welcome to 1950's Hollywood. Keep your tongues in your mouths, ladies, there goes America's most eligible bachelor, silver screen star and Grade-A Slab of Beef: Guy Stone. Wait. Look closer. There's something slightly flouncy about his swagger. For everybody inside the movie biz, Guy's pink streak is an open secret. And how could it not be? From stage-hands to bellhops, if they wear pants, Guy Stone has been in them. But all of a sudden, there are some embarrassing pictures floating around town to go with the rumors, and if Guy wants to play Ben Hur, he needs to grow a beard fast. Enter Sally, the pert young studio secretary whose eyes go starry whenever Guy walks by. It's that ignorant, er, innocent quality that makes Sally the perfect Mrs. Guy Stone. Naturally, married life doesn't sit well with Guy, and neither do Sally's cheese-and-carb-chocked casseroles. When a certain broad-shouldered, clean-cut writer named Rick shows up to watch his novel get butchered into a movie, an unfamiliar ache fills Guy's celluloid soul. Is that love? Here are a few good reasons to find out. Writer/director Richard Day, the sly fox behind last year's smash hit Girls Will Be Girls, again unleashes his irreverent wit and Technicolor imagination with bold flair. Matt Lescher, star of NBC's Good Morning, Miami, puts the flounce in Guy's swagger with comic brilliance, but he also finds Guy's heart. And the supporting cast, from Veronica Cartwright's dyke-baited agent to Michael Emerson's dry-witted butler, tear at the scenery like drag queens. Endless wisecracks aside, Straight Jacket will find your heart too, and might even make you cry.

Director Richard Day, Producer Michael Warwick and actors Clinton Leupp (Ms. Coco Peru) and Jack Plotnick will attend the screening to discuss the film with the audience.

Preceeded by O cueca cor-de-rosa (Pink Underwear), Dir. Ramon Navarro, Brazil, 2004, video, 1 min.
North American Premiere.
A gay lifeguard causes a fuss when he struts along the beach in his pink trunks.
Total running time: 97 min.

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