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| Directed by | Adam Bernstein |
| Produced by | Charles B. Wessler |
| Written by | Jim Emerson Stephen Hibbert Julia Sweeney (based on characters by Sweeney) |
| Starring | Julia Sweeney Dave Foley |
| Music by | Mark Mothersbaugh |
| Cinematography | Jeff Jur |
| Editing by | Norman Hollyn |
| Distributed by | Touchstone Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 26, 1994 |
| Running time | 77 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Gross revenue | $60,822[1] (33 theaters[1] in three U.S. cities[2]) |
It's Pat, also known as It's Pat: The Movie, is a 1994 American comedy film directed by Adam Bernstein that stars Julia Sweeney, Dave Foley, Charles Rocket, and Kathy Griffin. The film was based on the Saturday Night Live (SNL) character Pat created by Sweeney, an androgynous misfit whose gender is never revealed.
Dave Foley plays Pat's partner, Chris, and Charles Rocket, another SNL alumnus, plays Pat's neighbor, Kyle Jacobsen.
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Pat Riley, of indeterminable gender, is an obnoxious job-hopper who is searching for a steady foundation in his/her life. Throughout the film, Pat encounters Chris, a person of similarly indeterminable sex, and falls in love. As Chris and Pat begin to develop stronger feelings for one another, Pat's numerous career failures begin to affect how Chris views their relationship. They break up, leaving Pat sulking alone at home.
Meanwhile, Pat's neighbor, Kyle Jacobsen, develops an obsession with unveiling Pat's gender. Wacky adventures ensue, ultimately leading Pat and Kyle to a Ween concert in which Pat's sex is revealed to the concert audience (though not to the film's viewers). By the end of the film, Pat and Chris reunite and marry.
The film was written by Sweeney, Jim Emerson, Sweeney's friend from their days with The Groundlings[3], and Sweeney's former husband Steve Hibbert.[3] While at the Groundlings it had been Emerson who had suggested Pat, at the time a "character based on annoying co-workers who don't leave you alone", become androgynous.[3]
Three months before the film was released, Julia Sweeney commented on her initial reluctance to do a film based on Pat:[4]
Touchstone Pictures decided to produce the film after Fox bowed out.[4]
Variety magazine called the film "shockingly unfunny", noting that Sweeney had "perversely turned the relatively harmless TV character into a boorish, egotistical creep for the bigscreen"; the film's "only really funny bit is Sexual Personae author Camille Paglia, deftly parodying herself, commenting on the significance of Pat's androgyny."[5]
The film opened in only three cities.[2] In an unfortunate coincidence, the weekend that it opened to box office failure was also the weekend that Sweeney received serious news about a family member. According to Sweeney, "The movie bombed on Friday, and on Sunday [her brother] Mike called saying he was very sick and didn't have insurance". The subsequent events, including the death of her brother, became the subject of her one-woman show and film God said "Ha!".[6]
It's Pat was a multiple nominee at the 16th Golden Raspberry Awards, though the film's cast and crew lost in every category to Showgirls:
No soundtrack album was released. The songs from It's Pat are listed below as shown within the film's credits:
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