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Straight-Jacket is a american film of genre Comedy released in USA on 1 february 2004 with Matt Letscher

Straight-Jacket (2004)

Straight-Jacket
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Released in USA 1 february 2004
Length 1h36
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Romantic comedy,    Romance
Rating65% 3.291573.291573.291573.291573.29157

Straight-Jacket is a 2004 comedy film written and directed by Richard Day, based on his play. Done as a pastiche of the Rock 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.

Synopsis

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" (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 of Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon-type serial films), decides to steal the lead in Ben-Hur 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 also be a slavishly devoted Guy Stone fan. However, Sally isn't aware the marriage is a sham.

Actors

Matt Letscher

(Guy Stone)Carrie Preston

(Sally Stone)Michael Emerson

(Victor)Veronica Cartwright

(Jerry Albrecht)Jack Plotnick

(Freddie Stevens)
And :
Miss Coco Peru
Victor Raider-Wexler
Jennifer Elise Cox
David Burke
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