Behaviour Worldwide
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.
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.
Kate carries the kittens back to Adam who explains their names are Louie, Murray, Steve and Mordecai.
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.
After discussing the matter, Adam picks up a black kitten and says it needs changing and Kate can start practicing.
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.
A black cat is eating breakfast with the couple on the table as their aggravation with one another grows.
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.
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?
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.
Final Mewsings: Relationships may come and go but cats are for keeps.
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