Twentieth Century Fox
Starring: Mariah Carey, Max Beesley
Directed by: Vondie Curtis Hall

Cat Out of the Bag Alert!  This review contains some spoilers for this film!

Synopsis: Billie Frank (Mariah Carey) is an aspiring singer with a troubled past who finds fame, fortune and love with a radical producer named Julian Dice (Max Beesley).

Featured Feline: The movie begins with Billie as a little girl (Isabel Gomes) being raised by her alcoholic mother Lillian (Valarie Pettiford) who is also a singer. Billie owns an orange tabby kitten named Whisper who is first seen in Billie’s arms when she and her mother escape a house fire.

Lillian is forced to give up Billie while she tries to get clean. Billie is holding the kitten as her mother says goodbye and puts her in the car, which then drives away.

Billie is taken to a children’s home and enters carrying Whisper. The kitten actor seems fascinated with what is likely the boom mike above them.

Two girls named Roxanne (Courtnie Beceiro) and Louise (Lindsey Pickering) approach Billie and make friends with her, asking the cat’s name and wondering if they can pet him.

Whisper is not seen again until later in the film when, as an adult cat, he is seen sitting next to Billie on her bed as she goes through some of her mother’s things.

The cat is then absent from the film until Billie gets fed up with Julian one night and she storms out of the apartment, stopping to pick up Whisper at the door.

Billie carries Whisper through the streets and then up to the apartment of Roxanne and Louise, both of whom Billie had turned her back on previously.

The girls open the door to find Billie and Whisper, chastened. Whisper is not seen again after this.

The trainer on the film was Sue Parker and according to reports Sue gave a permanent home to the adult cat actor while Mariah Carey adopted the kitten actor. This photo could be of Mariah with either one of these cats.

Final Mewsings: If a woman’s grabs her cat as she’s leaving, she’s serious about going.

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