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Director:
David Zellner
Writer:
David Zellner (writer)
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
A recently divorced man tries to find the one aspect of his marriage that still matters to him: his missing cat, Goliath. | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Credited cast)
David Zellner
Nathan Zellner ... Chad P. Franklin
Caroline O'Connor ... Abby
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Carlos Aguirre ... Co-worker
Charles Bryant ... Co-worker
John E. Bryant ... Co-worker
Andrew Bujalski ... Terry
David Finch ... Co-worker
Tonya Fulcher ... Woman on Bike
Justin Lincoln ... Lawyer
Chale Nafus ... Oliver Sabovich - P.I.

Chris Ohlson ... Co-worker
Bob Sabiston ... Curtis

Wiley Wiggins ... Alvin
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Additional Details

Runtime:
80 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Filming Locations:
Austin, Texas, USA

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11 out of 14 people found the following comment useful:-
wonderfully strange and sublime, 31 January 2008
9/10
Author: William Ludkey from United States

I saw this movie at the Sundance Film Festival with a packed audience. We all watched as a man had his life fall apart in a variety of different ways, the breaking point being the lost of his cat (hence the title). Sometimes it was extremely funny, sometimes extremely sad. The outbursts of laughter were equally matched by silent awe and quiet sadness.

It's not really about a cat, but about how people (this one man in particular) fixate on something in order to cope with what's not working around them. The divorce signing scene alone is brilliant. A challenging scene that everyone I went with talked about afterwards, a total range of emotions...

And without spoiling it, things turn from bad to worse for him and the cat. But the end has the sweetest thing I've ever seen.

I thought the filmmaker did a good job and treading a fine line between the absurdly funny, and the reality that comes w/ divorce, isolation, and lost.

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