Hallmark Hall of Fame
Starring: Kristin Davis, Shirley MacLaine, Eric McCormack
Directed by: Paul Shapiro
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!
Synopsis: A workaholic broker named Eve (Kristin Davis) dies unexpectedly and finds herself assigned as an angel to assist a lonely musician named Max (Eric McCormack) who is trying to raise his niece.
Kitty Cameos: In the beginning of the film we see that Eve owns a Maine Coon cat named Forbes.
She feeds Forbes before leaving for work.
Later after Eve has passed we see her neighbor come to take Forbes to her place.
Near the end of the film when Eve returns, her neighbor brings Forbes back to her.
Forbes is also seen briefly in the party scene at the end.
When Eve awakens to find herself in an all-white world, she has a white cat next to her. She recognizes this cat as Snowball, the cat she owned as a child, complete with a black tail.
At one point Snowball walks through a wall. Eve knows she isn’t just in some hospital then.
Final Mewsings: Cats are our own angels.
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