Widescreen
Actor/Actress: Alan King , James Woods , Drew Barrymore
Director: Lewis Teague
Year: 1985
Runtime: 93
Rating: PG-13 (MPAA)
Language: Original: English; Dubbed: French; Subtitled: English, French, Spanish
Color: Y
Closed Captioned: N
UPC: 012569524729
Three wry and shocking Stephen King short stories are linked by a stray cat which roams from one tale to the next. The stories feature James Woods attempting to quit smoking by any means necessary, Robert Hays being forced to circle a building's hazardous ledge, and Drew Barrymore threatened by a tiny gnome.
From the macabre imagination of Stephen King comes this trio of terrifying tales.
In the first episode, a New York man has trouble giving up cigarettes. He turns to a shady self-help operation whose hotheaded owner outlines a litany of incrementally harsh penalties for those who cannot resist having another puff.
The second story centers on Cressner, a mobster who works Atlantic City. His wife has been having an affair with a tennis pro, so Cressner forces the athlete to walk the ledge around his apartment high-rise. If the athlete can complete one lap along the overhang, he gets to be with Cressner's wife forever.
A young girl, in the closing narrative, has difficulty sleeping. Though her parents suspect the family cat of wrongdoing, the girl knows better -- especially after she spots a foot-high troll coming out of her bedroom wall...
"Cat's Eye" began during the film adaptation of author Stephen King's "Firestarter," also a Dino De Laurentiis production.
De Laurentiis solicited King to write another vehicle for actress Drew Barrymore. King returned with an idea about a girl and the pet cat that guards her from a mischievous troll.
Because this material did not warrant a feature-length project, King adapted two short stories from his anthology "Night Shift" -- "Quitters, Inc." and "The Ledge" -- to comprise "Cat's Eye."
