Looking for Kitty

Here Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty, Here Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty! Boy, do I need pussy! OK, enough! "Looking For Kitty" is another Edward Burns creation which I found to be of catwalk material. Burns plays Jack Stanton, a New York introverted private detective who takes on a missing person case. Yes, he is Looking For Kitty. Stanton himself has been missing the riches of life for a long time because he grieves the loss of his dead wife. David Krumholtz co-stars as Abe Fiannico, the Midwestern idiosyncratic baseball coach who travels to New York to find his missing wife. Yes, he is also Looking For Kitty. Abe hires Stanton to, yea you got it, to be Looking For Kitty. OK, I will stop "Kitting" around. New York plays a central figure in the film's symbolism & richness. Burns subtle, but yet, moving "Looking For Kitty" will quietly "stray" in your system for a while. Writer-Director Burns continues to be unappreciated by the film industry. He is the ultimate film voice of the Irish-American community. His acting effort as the cocky, standoffish Stanton was commendable. The petite Krumholtz gave a big performance as the desperate & honest Abe. One of the supreme supporting performances I have seen so far this year. "Looking For Kitty" is a prototype cinematic tool kit on an effective dialogue-driven film. ***** Excellent

It's a small story about "small" people. If you like films about real world people, see this film. It's a film that doesn't flinch in showing small town New York. It's a great achievement in American film – I'm sure no one will notice. Maybe the audience doesn't exist for these films anymore, but that shouldn't prevent the making of them. Make them for the audience of the future.

Give this film some time and people will come to it. The score was noteworthy – very nice. Somebody did a great job putting this film together. It flows they way a good story should – just enough humor and just enough pathos for a complete story. Do you like the films made after the fall of the Hollywood system and before the rise of the Lucas/Spielberg juggernaut? This one is good enough to play with the big boys.

Like the film characters, these film makers are some of the last hold-outs in making film stories the way they should be made -- character driven, and about something.

I thought it was a excellent film with nice soundtrack. Not every movie will be a Michael Bay production. It has a thinking man's view of change and moving on. The film starts with someone who Abe(ball coach) that has no clue, yet still thinks he wants his wife back. Jack (Burns) is a bitter guy who slowly leaves his bitterness and lets go of his own loss(wife dying) as Abe (ball coach)learns he has nothing in common with his wife that ran away. They both grow as a result of their unlikely working relationship that becomes a true friendship. Great supporting roles with Chris Parnell(SNL) playing a douchebag record producer. Rachel Dratch (SNL) playing a lonely soul who is looking for something else. Abe is awesome as a baseball coach who batted 322 in high school with no errors his junior and senior year YEAH! ABout coping and dealing with change, loved it.

I think this is a quiet movie, but very satisfying in an intelligent way. It is an actors' movie, with Burns and Krumholtz doing excellent jobs: Burns as the detective, and Krumholtz as the client. Its use of New York city--a movie location so unceasingly used by movies and t.v.--is photographed to unusually good advantage. This is a movie about quests: One, the abandoned, loving baseball-devoted husband, and the second, the widowed detective, getting on with life one day at a time. Many good vignettes in this movie, but it is not the sort of story for those lacking patience and an enjoyment of the subtle. There's much to be said about movie making that allows abundant time for actors to be on camera and develop a scene between one another.

The coach was from Peekskill, New York not Poughkeepsie. But, that's something that the coach reminds the detective a couple of times. The acting was good and the story was interesting. I did pick up on one error. The detective (a resident of New York City) drives a car with New Jersey plates. I was hoping they'd explain that but I guess someone overlooked it. Rachel Dratch plays her usual nutty female but for once her part has a little more meat to it. The coach from Upstate NY has a NYC accent for some reason but little things like that can be overlooked. The locations are authentic, they didn't try to pass off Montreal or Seattle as New York City. Jack,the detective, apparently doesn't like the present administration in Washington and let's everyone know about it. I enjoyed the movie and recommend it.