SYNOPSIS
A grand technicolor screwball comedy about a closeted movie star in an arranged marriage who falls in love with a guy for the first time in his life.

REVIEW
Played with maximum camp and technicolor glory, gay writer Richard Day's (Girls Will Be Girls)Straight-Jacket is loads of fun with plenty of delicious eye candy and a gay romance to suck you in and keep you watching. Take a trip back to the '60s when Rock Hudson and Doris Day ruled the silver screen. Rock performed as a hetero playboy in front of the cameras and had wild homo playboy parties when the cameras were turned off. Well that's the story here!

Hunky screen idol Guy Stone, played with excellent timing by Matt Letscher, is every woman's dreamboat and the secret lover of every closet case in Hollywood. He's a man's man with the slightest wiggle in his walk and the top choice for the lead in Ben-Hur. But when a few photos pop up of possibly gay Guy, the studio arranges an instant marriage of convenience to starry-eyed secretary Sally. Guy's life snowballs into a side-splitting struggle to keep his gay side from his new bride and stay in the cast of Ben-Hur.

Meanwhile Guy is shooting a dreadful picture that needs to have all leftist political influences deleted, so they hire the leftist writer Rick to do the re-write -- go figure! Rick is gorgeous, their eyes meet and all bets are off. For the first time ever, Guy actually falls in love with the guy. There's lots of kissing, high romance, drama (both low and high) great jokes and tons of fun. Writer/director Richard Day pokes gleeful fun at McCarthy-era Red-baiting, the hypocrisy of the celluloid closet and those great sixties comedies by making one of them!

Cast: Matt Letscher, Carrie Preston, Adam Greer, Veronica Cartwright, Victor Raider-Wexler, Jack Plotnick, Michael Emerson