“I’m ready. I’ve got Bob. He’ll look after me.”
A true feel-good story based on the best-selling book of the same name, which sold over 5 million copies worldwide. Cleopatra Entertainment LLC, the movie division of famed indie record label Cleopatra Records, has acquired all domestic rights to the feel-good true story A Street Cat Named Bob, directed by Roger Spottiswoode (Turner and Hooch, Tomorrow Never Dies) and starring Luke Treadaway (Unbroken), Ruta Gedmintas (The Strain) and Joanne Froggatt (Downtown Abbey). The film, written by Tim John and Maria Nation, is based on the international bestseller by James Bowen and Garry Jenkins. Produced by Adam Rolston for Shooting Script Films, the uplifting story will be released domestically in theaters on November 18th, 2016. Check out the trailer for A Street Cat Named Bob:
Synopsis:
When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation,...
A true feel-good story based on the best-selling book of the same name, which sold over 5 million copies worldwide. Cleopatra Entertainment LLC, the movie division of famed indie record label Cleopatra Records, has acquired all domestic rights to the feel-good true story A Street Cat Named Bob, directed by Roger Spottiswoode (Turner and Hooch, Tomorrow Never Dies) and starring Luke Treadaway (Unbroken), Ruta Gedmintas (The Strain) and Joanne Froggatt (Downtown Abbey). The film, written by Tim John and Maria Nation, is based on the international bestseller by James Bowen and Garry Jenkins. Produced by Adam Rolston for Shooting Script Films, the uplifting story will be released domestically in theaters on November 18th, 2016. Check out the trailer for A Street Cat Named Bob:
Synopsis:
When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation,...
- 4/14/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This true story falls down a bizarre rabbit hole of gentle condescension about how to solve the problems of poverty and drug addiction. I’m “biast” (pro): love cats
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
It’s like I, Daniel Blake, but with a cute cat in a little scarf thrown in to make everything turn out okay. If only Dan and his poor, desperate friends had marched into the JobCentre with a hamster or a puppy tossed over their shoulders, all their problems would have been solved. I think this is what our betters mean when they say people on benefits just need to try harder: Find something fluffy with big eyes, ya lazy scroungers. A Street Cat Named Bob may be based on a true story, of recovering heroin addict and...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
It’s like I, Daniel Blake, but with a cute cat in a little scarf thrown in to make everything turn out okay. If only Dan and his poor, desperate friends had marched into the JobCentre with a hamster or a puppy tossed over their shoulders, all their problems would have been solved. I think this is what our betters mean when they say people on benefits just need to try harder: Find something fluffy with big eyes, ya lazy scroungers. A Street Cat Named Bob may be based on a true story, of recovering heroin addict and...
- 11/18/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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