Keanu (2016) on Netflix
Rell Williams finds a kitten at his door and names it Keanu. When it vanishes from his ransacked home, he and his cousin Clarence Goobril pose as dealers for a street gang.
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Plot summary
Assassins called the Allentown Brothers storm a Mexican cartel's drug facility, and the boss's kitten slips away. In Los Angeles, Rell Williams, freshly dumped, finds the animal at his door and calls it Keanu. Two weeks later he and his cousin Clarence Goobril come back from a movie to a wrecked apartment and no kitten. Their neighbor Hulka, a weed dealer, blames the 17th St. Blips, who he thinks came for his money. At a strip club the gang's leader, Cheddar, mistakes the cousins for the Allentown Brothers.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Keanu (2016)
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- Keanu Reeves originally turned down the cameo offer but changed his mind after his sister showed him the film's trailers. A dream sequence was then modified so that Reeves could provide the voice of the titular kitten.
- Seven tabby kittens played the title character, trained for three weeks with treats, meat flavored baby food and laser pointers, and taught to keep their lightweight costumes on. All seven were adopted by the end of production, Haddish naming hers “Catatonic”.
- Clarence was always meant to be a fan of a White musician, and the writers settled on George Michael as pre-production started. The producers then approached Michael's managers, saying he would not be treated as a joke but as “so cool that even drug lords got a tattoo of him”, which won his approval.
