Sidney Kimmel Entertainment
Starring: Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden
Directed by: Steven Brill
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!
Synopsis: Meghan Miles (Elizabeth Banks) is a straight-laced local L.A. news anchor whose dream of working at a national news desk seem smashed, so she indulges in a crazy night which leaves her stranded in downtown L.A. only to find she has landed the job and has only a few hours to report for work.
Cat Credits: During the opening credits a variety of news bloopers are shown. The last of these is of Meghan reporting from the ASPCA for a pet adoption fair. A variety of cats are seen outside their cages.
Meghan is holding a cat when it starts to attack her.
Cats fly everywhere, one jumping right at the camera.
Featured Feline: It is explained that cats don’t like Meghan and this comes up again when she spends the night with Gordon (James Marsden), the bartender from the club where she and her girlfriends have been partying. As Meghan tries to leave the apartment she’s stopped by Gordon’s female cat, who jumps up on a table in front of her.
The cat looks at her crazily and Meghan manages to put a wooden box over her.
Moments later Meghan turns and the cat is sitting on top of the box. The cat then goes after her but she makes it out of the door.
Later the cat is seen sniffing at an open can of beer. Gordon wakes up to find Meghan gone.
When Meghan’s girlfriends show up to talk to Gordon, one of them comments on how he has a cat. Gordon explains that she was a rescue animal.
Final Mewsings: Life is more difficult if you can’t get along with cats.
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