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Cat's Eye (1985) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date • R1: Jul 29, 2003
Budget $7,000,000
MPAA Rating R
Running Time 1 hour, 34 minutes
Country USA
Studio MGM, MGM/United Artists, United Artists
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles • Cat's Eye • Stephen King's Cat's Eye (1985) • Katzen-Auge (1986) • KatzenAuge (1986) • Stephen Kings Katzenauge (1986)
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Genre: Thriller, Horror, Comedy, Occult, Suspense, Campy, Infidelity
Plot: A wandering supernatural feline's adventures provide the linking story for Stephen King's Cat's Eye, a dead on trilogy scripted by King and directed by Lewis Teague (Cujo, The Jewel of the Nile). First up: the staff at Quitters Inc. promises to help nicotine fiend Dick Morrison (James Woods) kick the habit. If not, someone in Morrison's household might get smoked… because QI is run by a very persuasive mob family. Next comes a cliffhanger. Or a ledgehanger. Either way, a luckless gambler (Robert Hays) is forced into a bet involving a stroll around the building- on the five inch ledge encircling the 30th floor. Finally, our wayfarer kitty rescues a schoolgirl (young Drew Barrymore) from a vile, doll sized troll.From the macabre imagination of Stephen King comes this trio of terrifying tales. In the first episode, a New York man has trouble giving up cigarettes. He turns to a shady self-help operation whose hotheaded owner outlines a litany of incrementally harsh penalties for those who cannot resist having another puff. The second story centers on Cressner, a mobster who works Atlantic City. His wife has been having an affair with a tennis pro, so Cressner forces the athlete to walk the ledge around his apartment high-rise. If the athlete can complete one lap along the
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Overall this is a watchable trio of tales that manages to make okay entertainment even if there are much better anthology films out there and it's a harmless timewaster that even manages to throw out lots of references to King's other works. Director Lewis Teague also did the adaptation of King's Cujo in 1983.  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
Aside from that opening piece, there's nothing to recommend here. Pass.-- (eSplatter.com)
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Stephen King
The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Shining |
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American Graffiti, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cherry Falls |
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