Love & Sex (2000)

Love & Sex poster

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Starring:
 Famke Janssen, Jon Favreau
Directed by: Valerie Breiman

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

Synopsis: Kate Welles (Famke Janssen) finds herself having to write an article about love and relationships and draws on her own experience falling in and out of love with an artist named Adam (Jon Favreau).

Cat Burglars (Scene Stealers): In an early moment Kate is seen approaching her desk at work where there are four pictures of cats on her desk.

Love & Sex - pictures of four cats on desk

The background of the cats is explained in a flashback to their dating anniversary when Adam asks Kate to draw him a bath. She doesn’t want to but finally concedes and is surprised when she pulls back the shower curtain to reveal a box containing four kittens.

Love & Sex - Kate Famke Janssen opens shower curtain to reveal box of kittens animated gif

Love & Sex - box of kittens in bathtub

Kate carries the kittens back to Adam who explains their names are Louie, Murray, Steve and Mordecai.

Love & Sex - box of kittens close

As Adam plays with the gray and white kitten, making it “talk” to Kate and calling her “mommy,” she gets pensive and reveals she is pregnant.

Love & Sex - Adam Jon Favreau holding up grey and white kitten

Love & Sex - Adam Jon Favreau holding up grey and white kitten closer

Love & Sex - Adam Jon Favreau holding grey and white kitten and looking serious

After discussing the matter, Adam picks up a black kitten and says it needs changing and Kate can start practicing.

Love & Sex - Adam Jon Favreau and Kate Famke Janssen with black kitten

Love & Sex - Adam Jon Favreau and Kate Famke Janssen with black kitten

Two of the cats are later seen as adults with Kate and Adam, lying in bed with them as the couple starts to fall apart.

Love & Sex - Adam Jon Favreau and Kate Famke Janssen on bed with two cats

Love & Sex - Adam Jon Favreau and Kate Famke Janssen on bed with two cats closer

Love & Sex - Adam Jon Favreau and Kate Famke Janssen on bed kissing as tabby and white cat watches

Love & Sex - Adam Jon Favreau and Kate Famke Janssen turning away from each other on bed with tabby and white cat

A black cat is eating breakfast with the couple on the table as their aggravation with one another grows.

Love & Sex - Adam Jon Favreau and Kate Famke Janssen eating breakfast with black cat between them on table

After Kate and Adam break up, Kate is seen making love to a very sexy man. The man is kissing her gently then starts licking her chin. As he keeps licking, Kate gets weirded out and then wakes up to find an orange tabby cat licking her face.

Love & Sex - Kate Famke Janssen has man licking chin which turns out to be orange tabby cat animated gif

Love & Sex - Kate Famke Janssen being licked on chin by orange tabby cat

Love & Sex - Kate Famke Janssen opening eyes to see orange tabby cat licking her chin

Love & Sex - extreme close up of orange tabby cat

Love & Sex - Kate Famke Janssen surprised by being awakened by orange tabby cat

The four cats are lying on the bed with her. Oddly enough the colors and breeds of the cats are different from when they were kittens. Are we to assume there were replacement cats over the years or was this simply a lack of continuity?

Love & Sex - Kate Famke Janssen holding up orange tabby cat with three other cats on bed

Love & Sex - Kate Famke Janssen getting out of bed with four cats

The cats are not seen again except in a couple of quick flashbacks of Kate and Adam’s happier times. The animal coordinator for the film was Brian McMillan formerly of Hollywood Animals.

Love & Sex - Adam Jon Favreau and Kate Famke Janssen in bed making love with black cat on covers

Final Mewsings: Relationships may come and go but cats are for keeps.


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