Topsy and Bunker: The Cat Killers
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Topsy and Bunker: The Cat Killers is a 1992
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/drama film
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 released by Top Bunk Films, the first feature film
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 directed by underground cine-video artist Thomas Massengale.

Synopsis

Topsy (Steve Gunderson
Steve Gunderson (actor)
Steve Gunderson, the actor, singer, composer, arranger and playwright, was born and raised in San Diego, California, where he launched his acting career at the age of 16...

) and Bunker (Paul Robertson
Paul Robertson
Paul W. Robertson is a Canadian businessperson, media executive and producer known for his work in animated television and broadcasting. He is currently the Group Vice President, Broadcasting of Shaw Communications and the President of Shaw Media....

), two outcasts living in a run-down, fleabag hotel in pre-Giuliani New York. Ensconced in their Manhattan neighborhood, where the present seemingly is out of sync with the overarching, socially defined reality of The City at large, the two misfits pass the time of their times in a fugue. Weaving fantasies of ever more complicated deviousness, they are shocked when, one night, one of their mind games goes horribly wrong and results in the death of Grace (Shirley Stoler
Shirley Stoler
Shirley Stoler was an American actress best known for her roles in The Honeymoon Killers and Lina Wertmuller's Seven Beauties.-Career:...

), one of the locals.

Now, try as they might, the exigenices of reality won't leave Topsy and Bunker alone. A reckoning is coming: but when the whole world is in your head, where do you hide?

Cast

  • Quentin Crisp
    Quentin Crisp
    Quentin Crisp , was an English writer and raconteur. He became a gay icon in the 1970s after publication of his memoir, The Naked Civil Servant.- Early life :...

     as Pat the Doorman
  • Steve Gunderson
    Steve Gunderson (actor)
    Steve Gunderson, the actor, singer, composer, arranger and playwright, was born and raised in San Diego, California, where he launched his acting career at the age of 16...

     as Topsy
  • Kathy Najimy
    Kathy Najimy
    Kathy Ann Najimy is an American actress, most notable as Olive Massery on the television series Veronica's Closet, Sister Mary Patrick in Sister Act and the voice of Peggy Hill on the animated television series King of the Hill. Prior to her film work, she was best known for two Off Broadway shows...

     as Marge
  • Paul Robertson
    Paul Robertson
    Paul W. Robertson is a Canadian businessperson, media executive and producer known for his work in animated television and broadcasting. He is currently the Group Vice President, Broadcasting of Shaw Communications and the President of Shaw Media....

     as Bunker
  • Shirley Stoler
    Shirley Stoler
    Shirley Stoler was an American actress best known for her roles in The Honeymoon Killers and Lina Wertmuller's Seven Beauties.-Career:...

    as Grace

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