Directed by: Eliza Hittman
This review contains a slight Kitty Carnage Warning!
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!
Synopsis: Sonya (Viktoria Vinyarska), a teenaged girl living in Brooklyn with her father (Mike Pikeman) and his menagerie of cats, finds herself facing difficult choices to protect him.
Cat Cattle Call: In the first scene Sonya is at the grocery store buying cat food and litter. When she returns home, the landlady (Mariya Lebedovych) confronts her about the noise and the smell of the cats and threatens to evict Sonya and her father. In the apartment, Sonya finds her father sitting in the kitchen with several cats.
One kitten has a pink ribbon around its neck. Her father says the kitten is for her but she points out there are already too many cats.
Sonya feeds the cats on the kitchen floor.
She carries the new kitten to her bedroom as she prepares for a night out with her friend Sveta (Nina Medvinskaya).
She also has to clean the cat’s litter box before she goes.
Wishing her father goodnight she leaves him sitting and holding a tiny kitten.
After a night out, Sonya and Sveta return to find an eviction notice on the door. The girls sit with the kittens in her bedroom.
Deciding what needs to be done, Sonya gathers up all the cats in the apartment as her father sleeps.
Slight Kitty Carnage Warning! She heads down to the beach with the box of cats. Thankfully she does not throw them into the ocean, as one might guess, but she does leave them abandoned on the beach.
Final Mewsings: The best way to avoid cat hoarding is to not start at all!
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