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Based
on of the Creepshow
model, this one has three Stephen King short stories turned into
three half hour movies.
The first and best is called Quitters Inc. and stars James
Woods as a man who is unsuccessful at his many attempts to quit
smoking. After signing the contract the agency of Quitters Inc.,
use any and all means of surveillance and persuasion to make you
quit. After a few chances to go straight, Quitters begins to enforce
your urge to break the bad habit, in all sorts of ways that will
make you cringe and laugh. This is by far the best episode of
Cats Eye.
Our second story, called The Ledge, involves Robert Hayes,
the guy from Airplane, as a man who while in Vegas, takes a bet
to walk around the edge of a skyscraper. Not really too much to
this one other than what I just told you, no big surprises or
gore. The weakest of the three stories.
Last is The General which has little Drew Barrymore being
attacked by a breath-stealing goblin of some kind. Although no
one believes her about the little critter in her room, Drew and
her pet cat make a last stand one night and try to bring the goblin
down. Although not a great story the goblin is quite amusing and
he makes all sorts of little noises and sayings. The effects however
are almost all blue screened.
The reason the movie is called Cat's Eye is because the
theme that ties the movie together is the appearance of the same
stray cat in each of the episodes. Other than that each story
is unrelated.
On the whole Cats Eye gets a 4/10
However Quitters Inc. is a definite 8/10
(1985) Lewis Teague, Stephen King
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