P.S. Your Cat Is Dead

P.S. Your Cat Is Dead is a novel, a play and a movie written by James Kirkwood, a gay playwright who also penned A Chorus Line.

1970 play

Originally written as a play in 1970, P.S. Your Cat Is Dead deals with a hapless writer, "Jimmy Zoole", who is left by his girlfriend on New Year's Eve. Unbeknownst to him, his cat has also passed away in an animal clinic.

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1970 - New Year's Eve

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To make matters worse, he surprises a burglar, Eddie, in his apartment, who it turns out had broken in a few times before, stealing among other things Zoole's precious manuscripts.

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Wanting to teach the burglar a lesson, Zoole ties him up to his kitchen table, initially torturing him by having him eat extra-spicy cat food and the likes.

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But soon their relationship begins to take on a homosexual dimension, when Eddie tells him he is gay and Zoole interviews him about his love life, supposedly "to get material for a novel".

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Zoole, who was previously shown as being in mourning for a male friend (similar to Brick Pollitt in Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; fittingly Zoole's cat is named "Tennessee"), suddenly begins to question his own sexuality.

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Tennessee Williams - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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He even gets a hilarious revenge on his former girlfriend, when she shows up in his apartment with her date, only to find him chatting with a young, attractive, bare-butted male tied to his sink.

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Eventually, Zoole and Eddie come to terms with each other and the last scene hints at a deep friendship, if not perhaps relationship, of the two.

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With daring themes of homosexuality, bisexuality, and BDSM, P.S. Your Cat Is Dead long remained an obscure cult classic.

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Homosexuality - Bisexuality - BDSM

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