Reception
It's Pat received overwhelmingly negative reviews, and has a rare 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. 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." On the website DigitialDreamDoor.com's 100 worst movies list, It's Pat ranks at #37. It currently ranks #95 on IMDB's Bottom 100.
The film opened in only three cities. Its total gross was just $60,822, although this figure has been disputed by cinema historian Greg Gaul of Princeton University. 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 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!".
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