by Mark Murton
Also Known As: Christmas Survival
Starring: Poppy
Directed by: James Dearden
Synopsis: Two sisters and their dysfunctional families gather for Christmas in their recently-deceased parents’ dilapidated country house and chaos ensues.
Kitty Cameo: Under the opening titles a young couple, Dan (Julian Ovenden) and Miranda (Gemma Whelan), are asleep with water dripping from the ceiling into a bucket at the end of the bed. A ginger and white tabby cat is lying by their feet.
The cat is seen just once more when in the pandemonium of Christmas morning when a dog pokes its head around a door, frightening the cat which hisses at it (although the cat appears to be panting rather than hissing). And that’s it, the cat doesn’t appear again.
The animal wrangler on the film was Sandra Strong working for Dogs on Camera and the cat actor’s name was Poppy.
Final Mewsings: The cat should be included in the entire Christmas film, not just two tiny scenes.
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