Cat's Eye

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Time Out says

A trio of moggy-linked Stephen King tales, two of them adapted from his own short stories, the final section a celluloid 'original'. James Woods chooses the wrong method of giving up smoking, when he succumbs to the positively draconian services of 'Quitters, Inc' and suffers bizarre ciggie-filled hallucinations; cuckolded husband McMillan forces his wife's toyboy Hays into a potentially fatal climb around the outside walls of his penthouse; young Barrymore is given a bad time by a demon in the woodwork, while her pet cat takes the blame. In each instance, the limp pay-off undercuts strong performances (manic Woods and sympathetic Drew especially), and the usual caveats about cumulatively unsatisfying portmanteau pictures certainly apply. King's moments of winking self-reference (a ringer for the car in Christine, a character reading Pet Sematary) hardly seem warranted in the circumstances.

Author: TJ

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Release details

UK release:

1984

Duration:

94 mins

Cast and crew

Director:

Lewis Teague

Cast:

James Naughton, Candy Clark, Robert Hays, Kenneth McMillan, Alan King, James Woods, Drew Barrymore, James Rebhorn

Music:

Alan Silvestri

Production Designer:

Giorgio Postiglione

Editor:

Scott Conrad

Cinematography:

Jack Cardiff

Screenwriter:

Stephen King

Producer:

Martha Schumacher

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Rated as: 3/5 (2 ratings)

  • APPEARS DATED., BUT I FOUND IT QUITE ENTERTAINING, THE CAT WAS QUITE AMUSING, AND MADE THE FILM GEL,.

    jilly Griffiths Sun Nov 27 2011
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  • Worst movie I've ever seen in my life.

    Eric Mon Oct 4 2010
    Rated as: 1/5
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  • entertaining anthology film in the tradition of the Amicus horror movies of the sixties and seventies. the stories are inter-linked by a plot thread about astray cat that sets out on a mission to save a young girl from a supernatural gnome beast that is stealing her breath.

    glen Fri Jan 16 2009
    Rated as: 5/5
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