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To: nickcarraway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Eye_(1985_film)

“Quitters, Inc.”

Smoker Dick Morrison is advised by a friend to join Quitters, Inc., to kick his habit. Clinic counselor Vinnie Donatti explains that the clinic has a 100% success rate due to a uniquely persuasive method: every time Dick smokes a cigarette, horrors of increasing magnitude will befall his wife and child.

Using the tomcat that Donatti’s assistant, Junk, caught in the street, Donatti demonstrates the first of these horrors: the tomcat is put in a cage and tormented with electric shocks coming from the floor.

Donatti explains that if his new client is caught with a cigarette, Dick’s wife Cindy will be shocked while he is forced to watch. For subsequent infractions, his daughter will be shocked, then his wife raped. Finally, Dick himself will be killed. Dick hides the threats from his family.

That night, Dick is angered by the methods Quitters, Inc., uses and notices a pack of cigarettes in his desk. He prepares to smoke, but notices a pair of feet in his closet, realizing Quitters, Inc., takes their threat seriously. The following day, Dick visits his daughter and gives her a doll. While at the school, Dick sees Donatti, who warns him that the organization will be watching him closely.

During a stressful traffic jam, Dick smokes after finding an old pack of cigarettes in his glove box. After watching Cindy suffer in the electric cage, Dick futilely attacks Donatti and Junk; the tomcat escapes in the scuffle. Dick is determined never to smoke again and tells his wife everything.

Time passes, and Dick is smoke-free, but has gained weight due to quitting. Donatti prescribes illegal diet pills and sets a target weight for Dick. Dick jokingly asks what will happen if he continues to gain weight; Donatti responds that someone will cut off his wife’s little finger.

Dick and his wife have a dinner party with the friend who recommended Quitters, Inc., to Dick and his wife, and toast the company. As she raises her glass, Dick sees that his friend’s wife is missing her little finger.


7 posted on 02/17/2024 10:10:43 PM PST by algore
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To: algore
Maid 'rescues' family after bird flies into house, sending everyone running for cover

They stole that from Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

11 posted on 02/17/2024 10:34:50 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: algore
As she raises her glass, Dick sees that his friend’s wife is missing her little finger.

They stole that from Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

12 posted on 02/17/2024 10:35:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
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