Starring: Trip
Directed by: Tod Williams
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!
Synopsis: Based on the novel by Stephen King. Graphic artist Clay Riddell (John Cusack) finds himself one of the few survivors of a strange cell phone signal that turns practically everyone into crazed killers.
Kitty Cameo: Early on Clay meets a man named Tom McCourt (Samuel L. Jackson) and they manage to make it to Clay’s Boston apartment. When they enter a long-haired white cat jumps down from a cat tree.
Later Tom is petting the cat. Incredibly, Clay neither acknowledges or talks to the cat or even feeds it. And when he and Tom later leave with a woman named Alice (Isabelle Fuhrman), there is no mention of the cat or the fact they are leaving it behind. In the book the cat’s name was Rafe and he belonged to Tom who was sad to leave him, telling Alice to leave the door open for him when they left. It was also mentioned that Rafe saved Tom from being a victim by knocking his cell phone down and breaking it, rendering it unusable. Rafe was played by cat actor Trip working for Animal Casting Atlanta.
Final Mewsings: Who the heck doesn’t greet their cat when they come home, apocalypse or no?
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