they are lowered with their genitals exposed to the cheering concert audience, but not to Kyle nor those watching the movie. Kyle is subsequently taken away by security guards. Pat then runs to see Chris, just as Chris is leaving on an ocean liner. In an epilogue, Pat and Chris marry. During 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. Cast Julia Sweeney as Pat Riley Dave Foley as Chris Charles Rocket as Kyle Jacobsen Kathy Griffin as Herself Julie Hayden as Stacy Jacobsen Timothy Stack as Doctor Mary Scheer as Nurse Beverly Leech as Mrs. Riley Tim Meadows as KVIB-FM manager Phil LaMarr as Stage manager Larry Hankin as Postal supervisor Kathy Najimy as Tippy Jerry Tondo as Sushi chef Mitch Pileggi as Concert Guard Dean and Gene Ween as themselves Production The film was written by Sweeney, Jim Emerson (Sweeney's friend from their days with The Groundlings), and Sweeney's former husband Stephen Hibbert. 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. Three months before the film's release, Sweeney commented on her initial reluctance to do a film based on Pat: I resisted it completely. I just didn't know how we could make it last for two hours. But 20th Century Fox was really keen; our producer was really keen. So we thought, OK, we'll write the script. And after three months, we fell madly in love with the script. Unfortunately, Fox did not. Touchstone Pictures decided to produce the film, after Fox bowed out. Quentin Tarantino revealed that he was an uncredited writer on the script. Reception It's Pat has a rare 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 11 reviews. 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". Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "It's Pat offers a simple message of self-acceptance, asserting that what counts is who you are rather than what your gender may or may not be. The trouble is that its telling is truly