Twentieth Century Fox
Starring: Chris Klein, Heather Graham
Directed by: J.B. Rogers
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!
Synopsis: A young man named Gilly (Chris Klein) who is an orphan falls in love with a girl named Jo (Heather Graham) and they fall in love. The complication? She may actually be his sister.
Kitty Cameos: Gilly works for the local animal shelter and at the beginning of the film he is seen driving his truck. Riding shotgun in a wire trap cage is a white long-haired cat wearing a pink ribbon.
Arriving at his destination, Gilly takes the cat in the cage and sets it in front of a house.
Moments later a large, dirty orange Manx tomcat appears from underneath the house.
The Manx goes to the cage, lured by the female cat. He is then trapped in the cage (which is partitioned so he can’t actually get to the female).
Gilly then takes the cats back to the shelter and puts the Manx into a cage.
There he notices the Manx is wearing a tag that says “Ringo.”
Later Gilly hears about a pretty new girl in town and goes to the hair salon where she works. She is actually a really bad hairdresser but the guys in town don’t care and they line up to get their hair hacked by her. As Gilly sits in her chair, he notices a picture of her holding a long-haired orange cat. She mentions her cat ran away two weeks before and his name is Ringo. He says he found her cat and she is so surprised she cuts off part of his ear.
Gilly and Jo hit it off and he goes to her house for dinner, bringing a cleaned-up Ringo with him. She is thrilled to be reunited with her cat.
Jo then introduces Gilly to her father (Richard Jenkins) who has had a stroke and can only talk through a voice enhancing collar. She then takes Ringo into the kitchen to get him some Half and Half.
Ringo is only seen in one more scene after this. It’s a scene in Gilly’s place and he is lying in bed. He wakes up to find that he is being pleasured under the covers and thinks it is Jo. Only Jo walks in a moment later. Pulling back the covers, Gilly realizes it was Ringo under there.
Ringo is then seen sitting off to one side as Gilly and Jo make love. Oddly enough Ringo is not seen again after this.
Final Mewsings: Maybe Ringo realized in what poor taste this film really was and got out of his contract.
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