Directed by: Pat O’Connor
Not Safe Fur Work! This review contains some nude imagery.
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!
Synopsis: Unconventional police officer Nick Starkey (Kevin Kline) is reinstated on the force to catch a serial killer.
Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): Nick’s neighbor and friend Ed (Alan Rickman) is in Nick’s apartment painting a nude model named Olympia (Katherine E. Miller) with a black cat. The cat modeling for the painting is actually just a tiny black kitten. A parrot is also present in the room.
Olympia is reading a magazine that the kitten in standing on. She picks up the kitten and drops it off the couch.
Ed tells Nick to catch the kitten and place it at Olympia’s feet. Nick has to run back and forth to try to catch the kitten, which darts along the back of the couch.
Nick is finally able to get a hold of the kitten and place it at the model’s feet, but the kitten just runs around the couch again.
Nick points a finger at the kitten and orders it to “Stay!” but the kitten reaches for his finger instead.
Later in the movie Nick and Ed are in Nick’s new office at the police station when Police Chief Vincent Alcoa (Danny Aiello) walks in. He is shocked to see Nick sitting with his feet on the window, accompanied by the parrot and the black kitten.
The parrot and kitten are not seen again and it is never explained how they leave the police station. The animal trainer on the film was Rick Parker.
Final Mewsings: The kitten was just trying to escape from this movie.
Many thanks to Mark Murton for letting us know about the kitten in this film!
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