American Title: Waking Ned Devine
Directed by: Kirk Jones
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!
Synopsis: A small Irish village is rocked when one of their residents wins the lottery but dies at the shock. So how to cash in his winnings?
Kitty Cameo: Resident Jackie O’Shea (Ian Bannen) convinces his friend Michael O’Sullivan (David Kelly) that they can trick the lottery board into thinking Michael is the deceased lottery winner, Ned Devine (Jimmy Keogh). In one scene, Jackie is trying to delay the lottery representative outside Ned’s home while Michael gets in place. A tabby cat approaches them outside the front door.
When Jackie turns to run around the cottage, the cat runs away.
Cat Cattle Call: Later in the film, Jackie, his wife Annie (Fionnula Flanagan), and Michael go to visit the cantankerous and reclusive Lizzy Quinn (Eileen Dromey), the only one in the village not willing to go along with the fraud without additional compensation. Lizzy is also a crazy cat lady with numerous cats around her home.
Final Mewsings: Crazy cat ladies are not usually so disagreeable.
Many thanks to Nick Wale for letting us know about the cat in this film!
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