Looking for Kitty

Story Line: A high-school baseball coach (David Krumholtz) from Peakskill, N.Y., goes to New York City in search of his missing wife, whom he believes has run off with a rock star. He hires a jaded private investigator (Edward Burns), with whom the coach bonds as it becomes evident that his wife never wants to see him again.

Bottom Line: Director/star Burns and Krumholtz function as a sort of comedy team in this low-key effort, which benefits from gloriously gray-looking Manhattan locations. Krumholtz, star of TV's Numb3rs, does quite nicely in his sad-sack role, pining for a woman we only meet at the very tail end of the film. Burns' ex-cop-turned-private-eye character is supposed to be a hardboiled enigma, but he's all too familiar—a gruff but loveable Irish-American who has a ready opinion about everything and everyone he encounters. The supporting cast includes Saturday Night Live's Rachel Dratch as a drunk party girl with a tender core and 24's Connie Britton as an attractive neighbor who spontaneously sleeps with Burns late one evening. Burns' dreamy portrait of New York will probably score higher marks with those who live outside of the Apple and are looking for an "old-fashioned" buddy picture (read: no shootouts or car chases).