Directed by: Laura Steinel

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

Synopsis: Kate Stone (Taylor Schilling) is a workaholic who looks at her co-workers’ family relationships as weaknesses. That is until she is called upon to babysit her teenage niece Maddie (Bryn Vale).

Cat Burglars (Scene Stealers): Maddie meets a boy named Dennis, aka Baby Joker (Fabrizio Guido), at a gas station food mart and becomes friends with him and his Juggalo compatriots (Juggalos being the radical followers of the band Insane Clown Posse). They are standing outside the mart one night with fellow Juggalos Scummer Steve (Joseph Poliquin) and Evil Eddie (Christian Noël). Evil Eddie is holding a scraggly one-eyed gray tabby cat.

Kate drives by and stops, shocked at seeing Maddie out with these boys. Maddie introduces them and Kate sees the cat. “What is that?” she asks. “It’s a cat we found behind the dumpster,” Maddie explains. “His name is Fartosaurus.”

“Is it okay?” Kate asks. “Hell yeah,” Evil Eddie insists, “Fartosaurus is a down-ass cat. Whoop, Whoop! Meow, Meow!” Kate pulls Maddie away.

Later Kate drops in on her co-worker Dan (Matt Walsh), hoping to get some parental advice. They had talked earlier about Dan’s son and it was inferred that the kid had some serious troubles. When Kate enters Dan’s home she sees a boy sitting at a table petting a tabby cat named Fluffy. She motions to Dan asking if the boy is okay with the cat, then makes a motion to indicate the boy was known for breaking cat’s necks.

Dan ignores Kate until she asks again and he tells the boy to take Fluffy upstairs. When Kate says the boy seems normal he explains that was his other son.

Final Mewsings: Sometimes cats are the only normal ones around.

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