A Street Cat Named Bob (film)

A Street Cat Named Bob
A young man with a beard and shoulder length curly hair stands with a ginger cat sitting on his shoulder wearing a Christmas scarf. Above them is the title "A Street Cat named Bob" and below that the tagline "Sometimes it takes nine lives to save one". Snow falls around them.
British release poster
Directed byRoger Spottiswoode
Written by
  • Tim John
  • Maria Nation
Based onA Street Cat Named Bob and
The World According to Bob
by James Bowen
Produced byAdam Rolston
Starring
CinematographyPeter Wunstorf
Edited byPaul Tothill
Music by
Production
companies
  • Stage 6 Films
  • Shooting Script Films
  • Prescience
  • Iris Productions
  • The Exchange
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing International
Release dates
  • 3 November 2016 (2016-11-03) (London premiere)
  • 4 November 2016 (2016-11-04) (United Kingdom)
Running time
103 minutes[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$8 million[2]
Box office$17.9 million[2]

A Street Cat Named Bob is a 2016 British biographical drama film directed by Roger Spottiswoode and written by Tim John and Maria Nation. It is based on the book of the same name and The World According to Bob by James Bowen. The film stars Luke Treadaway, Ruta Gedmintas, Joanne Froggatt, Anthony Head, and Bob the Cat as himself. The film premiered in London on 3 November 2016, followed by a general release the next day. The title is a spoof of A Streetcar Named Desire.

The film won Best British Film at the UK National Film Awards on 29 March 2017.[3]

A Christmas-themed sequel, A Gift from Bob, was released to UK theatres in November 2020. The film was released posthumously, as Bob the cat died in June 2020.

  1. ^ "A Street Cat Named Bob (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. 28 June 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  2. ^ a b "A Street Cat Named Bob (2016)". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
  3. ^ Admin (29 March 2017). "National Film Awards 2017 – Winners announced". National Film Awards UK. Archived from the original on 21 April 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.