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Based on the international best selling book. The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.
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Anthony Stewart Head, Caroline Goodall, Beth Goddard, Rob Jarvis, Luke Treadaway, Ruth Sheen, Tony Jayawardena, Lorraine Ashbourne, Darren Evans, Rosie Ede, John Henshaw, Akbar Kurtha, Joanne Froggatt, Llewella Gideon, Hattie Ladbury, Ruta Gedmintas, Bob the Cat, Nina Wadia, Nadine Marshall, Ivana Bašić, Sasha Dickens, Cleopatra Dickens, Adam Riches, Frances Ashman, Jill Winternitz, Ben Deery, Gemma Nichols, Pearl Maburutse, Margot Edwards, Jacob James Beswick, James Bowen
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Reviews
70
While Bob does slink around some predictable narrative beats, this is still a slyly subversive film with a social point to make as it highlights James’s isolation in a cold, hard-faced London which responds better to animals than its hopeless humans.
70
Veteran director Roger Spottiswoode, whose output has been spotty in recent years, returns to form with a perfectly weighted redemptive story that engages the heart without shying away from the darker aspects of Bowen’s recovery.
67
If you’ve ever felt the same about a Felis catus, you’ll cut A Street Cat Named Bob some slack for the same reason I did. You won’t be able to help yourself. And stock up on some Kleenex beforehand. You’re gonna need them.
60
It's just a shame the whole thing is so steeped in honkingly signposted feelgood sentiment.
60
Bob has spawned multiple books, but what works on the page seems slight on screen. That’s not to say it isn’t life-affirming, it’s just not quite the cat’s pyjamas.
