Wednesday 1^st March 2017 – A Street Cat Named Bob

Starring Luke Treadaway, Ruta Gedmintas, Joanne Froggatt and Bob (the cat)

BBFC: 12A

“Sometimes It Takes Nine Lives To Save One”

Based on the international best selling book, this is the true feel good story of how James Bowen (Luke Treadaway), a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat (Bob). In an interview in The Guardian, the real-life James says of his fight against heroin addiction: “It was Bob who gave me the determination to knuckle down and get over it. Using drugs is a selfish thing; Bob gave me something else to focus on.”

Street Cat Bob, who plays himself in the adaptation and proves to be quite the feline thespian. The film is a powerful and poignant story of hope, love, connection, redemption and struggle. We see a man who has nothing but the clothes and battered guitar on his back escape homelessness in the most