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Guttenberg's directorial debut is an adaptation of James (A Chorus
Line) Kirkwood's play about a down-on-his-luck actor who befriends
a gay burglar on New Year's Eve. (1 hr. 43 mins.; NR) — BILGE
EBIRI
Spotlight: Steve Guttenberg
"I've been doing this for 27 years, and I feel like I've been
working at Bloomingdale's," Steve Guttenberg says. "It
was time for me to open up my own little store." Hence P.S.
Your Cat Is Dead, which the Borough Park native co-wrote, directed,
and stars in as Jimmy Zoole, a browbeaten actor who, on New Year's
Eve, captures a cat burglar in his apartment. Instead of calling
the cops, however, Zoole ends up talking to the young gay thief
over the course of a very long night. Adapted from James (A Chorus
Line) Kirkwood's play, it's "about how we deal with people,"
Guttenberg says. "Everybody has an agenda: One wants ice cream,
one wants blueberry pancakes, but somehow we all have to eat. We
have to understand other people." Guttenberg wrote the screenplay
on spec. "You have to step off a cliff and believe something
will hold you up," he says, which is also how, after making
hits like Cocoon, Diner, two Three Men and a Babys,
and four Police Academys, Guttenberg survived when the roles
dried up. "When you walk into a room in Hollywood, you can
feel the Hot/Not barometer on your back," he says. "It
never bothered me, though. I knew I could still do good work."
Opens January 17
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