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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.




Plot


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.
To avoid his adoring new bride as much as possible, Guy has Jerry sign him onto the next available film, which turns out to be 'Blood Mine' — a disastrously arch pro-union film about the corrupt goings on at a coal mine (with lines like 'how can they call this a MINE when everything is THEIRS!?!'). The studio head, in fear of the red-baiting going on in Hollywood at the time, decides — true to Hollywood stereotype — rather than stop production on the film to instead water down the pro-union content wherever possible. The young, idealistic, and terribly handsome writer of the novel that the film is based on, Rick Foster, quickly gets roped into convoluting the plot of this already-bad adaptation of his heartfelt book largely because of a chance meeting between him and the film's star, Guy. The attraction the two men feel for one another is instantaneous and propels the rest of the plot forward.




Cast


Matt Letscher as Guy Stone, a closeted homosexual Rock Hudson-like actor
Carrie Preston as Sally Stone, a wild Guy Stone fanatic and the studio's head secretary
Adam Greer as Rick Foster
Veronica Cartwright as Jerry Albrecht, Guy's repressed lesbian agent
Jack Plotnick as Freddie Stevens, a neurotic actor out to reveal Guy's secret
Michael Emerson as Victor
Sam Pancake as Tour Guide
Jackie Hoffman, who originated the role of Jerry in the stage play, was asked to reprise her role, but couldn't due to Hairspray: The Musical.




External links


Official website
Straight-Jacket at IMDb
Straight-Jacket at Box Office Mojo
• Source: Straight Jacket

"Straight Jacket" is a song by Canadian rock band Theory of a Deadman from their sixth studio album, Wake Up Call (2017). It is the second single from the record, following "Rx (Medicate)". Produced by Martin Terefe, it was recorded at Terefe's Kensaltown Studios in London and was released on January 16, 2018. Its music video, which was inspired by the American film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, was unveiled three weeks later on the band's official YouTube page.
The single has been met with mixed reviews with certain lyrics and musical aspects being perceived as negative by its critics. The track is the band's 22nd song to enter the Billboard's Mainstream Rock, peaking at number 12 in May 2018.




Recording and composition


"Straight Jacket" was co-written by all four members of Theory of a Deadman, who enlisted the assistance of Swedish producer, Martin Terefe, to work on Wake Up Call. Recorded at Terefe's Kensaltown Studios in London, the song was released on January 16, 2018, and was promoted with a contest on Theory of a Deadman's official website in which participants would have a chance to win a straitjacket autographed by the band and a merchandise bundle.

Lead singer Tyler Connolly revealed that the single was formed in the days leading up to the album's recording. He stated that the beginning lyrics of the intro, "I wear a 36 long / White is my color", were developed first and that it took some time to complete the writing process due to the amount of lyrics. The track was composed with the assistance of a piano, characterized by the staccato notes in the beginning of the single. The piano is an instrument that Connolly had been teaching himself to play, with Wake Up Call being the first album in which most of the songwriting had been done with this instrument instead of a guitar. Connolly noted that the piano "opened [a] whole new world of creativity" for him, allowing for songs like "Straight Jacket" to formulate.




Commercial performance and critical reception


"Straight Jacket" debuted at number 37 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart and peaked at number 12 in May 2018. In a review of Wake Up Call, James Christopher Monger of AllMusic called "Straight Jacket" a "lurid opener" to the album that "catered to the band's worst tendencies". Alternative Addiction called the song "listenable" while Allen J. Miller at Cryptic Rock disagreed, calling it "unlistenable". Jonni D at Über Röck also criticized the single, viewing the staccato piano notes as "infuriating" and castigating Connolly's "new-found penchant for rapping".




Music video


The music video for "Straight Jacket" was released on February 7, 2018, via Theory of a Deadman's official YouTube account. Directed by Iqbal Ahmed, it was inspired by the 1975 American film, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, focusing on the band in an insane asylum and their escape from the institution. Connolly expressed how he was exhausted of the idea of performance-based music videos, opting for video concepts that entailed a story line for both "Straight Jacket" and the band's previous single, "Rx (Medicate)".




Credits and personnel


Credits adapted from the liner notes of Wake Up Call.




Charts






References






External links


Straight Jacket (Official Video) on YouTube

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