Directed by: Sebastián Lelio

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

Synopsis: Gloria Bell (Julianne Moore) is a middle aged woman who loves dancing but has little luck when it comes to relationships.

Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): Gloria comes home one night and sees a hairless Sphynx cat sitting on a table.

She picks up the cat and puts it outside the door, saying, “How did you get in here again? Go home!”

Another time Gloria is talking on the phone to an insurance client. She sees the cat sitting on her kitchen counter.

Once again she puts the cat outside.

After a very bad experience, Gloria enters her home with her mother (Holland Taylor). The hairless cat is sitting on the arm of the couch. “When did you get a cat?” her mother asks, picking the cat up. Gloria collapses on the floor in frustration.

In the following scenes the cat is on Gloria’s bed while she’s sleeping and is still there when she wakes up.

Gloria has given up and she and the cat are now bonded. The cat is there to stay.

Apparently two cats played the part. Julianne Moore, who enjoys working with animals, had never seen a hairless cat in person and laughed at her initial reaction. “They’re very unusual and there’s something vulnerable about them because they have no hair.”

This film is an English language remake of Sebastián Lelio’s film Gloria filmed in Chile and starring Paulina García. In that film the neighbor came to claim the cat in the end but here Gloria presumably keeps the cat.

Final Mewsings: Relationships with cats rarely go astray.

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