![]() It's Pat has a rare 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 11 reviews. Quentin Tarantino revealed that he was an uncredited writer on the script. Touchstone Pictures decided to produce the film, after Fox bowed out. And after three months, we fell madly in love with the script. So we thought, OK, we'll write the script. But 20th Century Fox was really keen our producer was really keen. I just didn't know how we could make it last for two hours. Three months before the film's release, Sweeney commented on her initial reluctance to do a film based on Pat: I resisted it completely. ![]() While at the Groundlings, Emerson suggested that the character Pat, at the time a "character based on annoying co-workers who don't leave you alone", be made androgynous. The film was written by Sweeney, Jim Emerson (Sweeney's friend from their days with The Groundlings ), and Sweeney's former husband Stephen Hibbert. In an epilogue, Pat and Chris marry.ĭuring the end credits, Kathy is now hosting her radio show again and the first caller is Kyle, whose obsession with Pat has driven him to cross-dressing. Pat then runs to see Chris, just as Chris is leaving on an ocean liner. ![]() Kyle is subsequently taken away by security guards. Their pants get torn off by a hook and they are lowered with their genitalia exposed to the cheering concert audience, but not to Kyle nor the viewer. After Kyle corners them on a catwalk, Pat falls. Kyle demands that Pat strip naked, but Pat runs off into a Ween concert. Pat arrives to find Kyle dressed exactly like Pat. Kyle calls into Pat's radio show saying he has Pat's laptop, and sets up a meeting at the Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum to retrieve it. When Pat gives acerbic reactions to call-in listeners, the station fires Kathy and replaces her with Pat. Pat complains to Kathy, a friend who is a therapist and host of a radio talk show. Meanwhile, a gang of thugs with the same goal begin harassing Pat, who becomes distraught over the thugs' use of the term "androgynous". He eventually succeeds with the password " zythum" (an Egyptian malt beer), and reads the diary, but doesn't find the answer to his question, and finally snaps. When Pat only answers that it's a word in the dictionary, Kyle begins manually trying every word in a dictionary. Kyle steals Pat's laptop containing their diary and tries to coerce them into revealing the computer's password, so he can access the files. When Pat learns that Ween intended to only use them for one gig, Pat and Chris break up. He sends a tape of Pat performing karaoke to a TV show called America's Creepiest People, bringing them to the attention of the band Ween, who feature Pat in one of their performances, playing the tuba. Meanwhile, Pat's neighbor Kyle develops an unhealthy obsession with identifying Pat's gender, and begins stalking them. Pat falls in love with Chris (whose gender is also unrevealed to the audience) and the two get engaged. Pat Riley is a chubby, whiny, and obnoxious job-hopper of indeterminate gender who is searching for a steady foundation in life. It's Pat was universally panned by critics, and bombed at the box office, only grossing $60,822 against its $8 million budget. The film was released in only thirty-three theatres in three cities in the United States. Dave Foley plays Pat's partner Chris, and Charles Rocket, another SNL alumnus, plays Pat's neighbor Kyle. The film was based on the Saturday Night Live ( SNL) character Pat, created by Sweeney, an androgynous misfit whose gender is never revealed. It's Pat is a 1994 American slapstick comedy film directed by Adam Bernstein and starring Julia Sweeney, Dave Foley, Charles Rocket, and Kathy Griffin.
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