Looking for Kitty

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.

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.

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.

This is another New York-centric little character-driven film about a down-on-his-luck private detective, Jack(Burns), who takes a case for a sad-sack husband, Abe(Krumholtz) searching for his recently departed wife. Jack is a lonely man who has lost his wife and feels screwed by the system. Abe is a baseball coach from Upstate who longs for the return of his beloved Kitty. But she evidently tired of Abe's small-town ways and devotion to the kids on his team, so she took off to shack up with a rock star in a Manhattan condo. Despite their differences, and Jack's desire to be left alone, Abe persuades (for $500 extra/week) Jack to let him assist in his investigation; their daily interaction leads both men to learn something about themselves.

All the typical Burns' traits are there: poor schlub with relationship problems? Check. Men attempting to find themselves, usually with the help of unattainable women? Check. Witty dialog and terrific one-liners? Check. Enough shots of downtown New York to film a travel guide? Check. I mean, it's a decent little movie that hits a few high notes, such as when Jack wistfully gives historical back-ground about the "holdout" buildings left in the booming megalopolis that is downtown, or the gut-wrenching scenes of Burns pining for his lost wife. But there really isn't much to it, and what is there, we've seen it all from Mr. Burns before. And much better (i.e. Brothers McMullen, She's the One).

My advice to Ed: next time out, take a cue from the Wood-man and move your tale to another locale. Woody finally abandoned his beloved city, hopped across the pond to London, added some intrigue, and the result was his biggest critical and box office success in years, MATCH POINT; it was so successful he opted to make his next film there as well, although early reviews of SCOOP are not flattering. But maybe you could try Ireland, and add a little mystery or a torrid affair. Heck, even add Scarlett Johansson if you must. Because we love ya, Ed, for your everyman charm and ease in front of, and behind, the camera. But I for one am growing tired of your one note acts. You have the talent to do so much better.

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.