Best film featuring a cat:

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I am only including live-action films here. There are so many animated films with cats in them, that should be another poll. Here are 10 possible choices; if your favorite film featuring a live cat isn't listed, please reply with your choice.

[taterguy]

1. Talladega Nights

The cat isn't the star but it does play a very prominent role

[LadyoftheRabbits]

2. Loved Milo and Otis...

But also loved "The Cat From Outer Space" :7

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8. That's funny, because I had that on the list, but I had to cut one film

because they only allow 10 choices, so that was the film I cut, thinking, "Oh, nobody's probably even seen that one." Then right away someone replies with it!

[LadyoftheRabbits]

11. :P

Yep, great film! Childhood favourite. I'd STILL watch it. :D

[southpaw]

3. Clerks

Remember the black cat that hangs out in the convenience store all day... at one point taking a dump right in front of a customer (blame Randal or Dante... which ever one put the litter box on the counter)

CUSTOMER: Cute cat. What's its name?

RANDAL: 'Annoying Customer'.

[martymar64]

4. Cat People

Natasia Kinski . . . . puuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrr

[calico1]

5. Breakfast at Tiffany's n/t

[musiclawyer]

21. Yes,

the cat in the rain scene makes me cry every time

[txwhitedove]

28. Agree, my vote is for Breakfast at Tiffany's....

[barb162]

29. Yes!

I cry at the end every time when she finally finds the wet Cat

[ZombieNixon]

6. Of the choices: Milo and Otis, man!

That must have been my favorite movie for three years straight! :D

[jobycom]

7. The Three Lives of Thomasina is one of my favorite films.

Even with the heavy-handed religious overtones. One of me favorite films as a kid.

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9. It made me cry, and I didn't want the other boys in class to see me cry.

They showed it to us in the third grade if I remember correctly.

[jobycom]

10. It got to me so much that I begged my parents to get me a cat, and not

just any cat, but a female cat, so I could name her Thomasina. They refused. So, being the young fundie I was as a kid, I prayed that a stray cat would wander into my yard, and my parents would let me keep her. On Christmas morning, after I opened the main present my parents had bought me, only to discover it was the wrong one (we were way too poor to get many presents) I was sitting on my porch, all sad, and a stray female cat jumped up on the porch beside me and started rubbing against me. My parents felt so sorry for me getting the wrong present that they let me keep her. Thomasina generated three generations of cats for us.

Odd story for an atheist, eh?

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15. Great story! The cat found you.

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27. I really must be dense

because I don't see it as having religious overtones. No, I confess, I don't see them in Narnia, either, so perhaps my mind just looks for the story, and as long as a cat is in something, it's just another story to me.

I remember when Narnia came out and my fundie friend was smirking because I love Narnia, and have loved it since I was a child first hearing a fourth grade teacher read Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to us. Being a fantasy fan, I never looked past the story as a story, and if the message was there, I must not have cared. I pretty much told her off that day that we saw it for that reason, and not for any hidden messages.

As far as Thomasina, the message I think of is that love and patience go just as far as knowledge if used in a way to help others. And being the owner of many cats through the years, I, too, would think twice before going to Patrick McGoohan, especially in that film!

BTW--piece of trivia on Thomasina that I contributed to IMDB some time ago. When they were making it, they obviously didn't care if people noticed or not, but they used different patterned cats in different parts. They're all red tabbies, but in some scenes, it's a classic tabby (swirls and a bullseye) and in other scenes, it's a mackerel tabby. They couldn't get away with that much of a booboo anymore, I don't think!

[Brewman_Jax]

12. Harry and Tonto

[enigmatic]

17. absolutely

:thumbsup:

[ForrestGump]

13. Went with "Milo and Otis," but you

list other worthy candidates and cats of various types have had great roles in such films as The Jungle Book (the live action one with Jason Scott Lee as Mowgli -- beautiful black panther and tiger) and important or otherwise very well-acted smalelr parts in everything from True Grit (I love that they gave John Wayne an ornery old cat as a sidekick, cats generally connoting the more feminine side of the coin than would a more sterotypically-used dog) to old Unicorn in Return Of The Dragon (the little cat that snarls at the bginning of the death match between Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris) and, of course, the James Bond villains.

Of course, in many films cats are mainly there to jump out of the shadows, usually from above, durign suspenseful scenes...usually sdcaring the hell out fo the protaganist who then relazes and is nailed by the bad guy.

And then there's that movie about the killer cats and the one based on a Stevie King book that has the cat sucking the breath out of sleeping people. :scared:

I've got to see Harry and Tonto -- that sounds cool.

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26. Like the cat

in the original Alien!!!

[mikeytherat]

14. "J.T."

http://imdb.com/title/tt0158681/

mikey_the_rat

[AlienGirl]

30. OMG, that was a *movie*?!

I loved the book, never realized it was also a movie!

Tucker

[Kat45]

16. I loved "Rhubarb". I was surprised to see it on the list.

Thought for sure I'd have to write it in as my choice. I didn't think anyone else had heard of that movie, never mind seen it. I loved that ornery cat. And I loved that the cat owned the baseball team.

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22. It's a cute movie. Nobody ever watches it though. And it never get shown

on TV, that I know of.

[AlienGirl]

31. Never saw the movie but I loved the book!

[KamaAina]

18. "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids"

MEEEOOWWWWWW! sounds a lot different when the tabby is six times bigger than you are...

[ET Awful]

19. The original "Cat from Outer Space"

:P

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

20. Alien

I always wondered if the cat that Sigourney Weaver rescued at the end had one of the aliens inside of it.

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23. I love Milo and Otis

(have it on DVD) but The Three Lives of Thomasina is the one I always cry when I see it. I also have it on DVD, and have watched it several times since. What's amazing is that Susan Hampshire is one of the best actresses to age--even now, she looks completely remarkable.

But the story is one to love and weep for!

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24. You also forgot one of the most prominent

cat films of all time, Bell, Book and Candle. :) Kim Novak, James Stewart........and Pyewacket.

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25. Thanks - that's a good one