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When the Cat's Away (1996) on Netflix

R19961h 31mComedyRomance

Chloé, an assistant makeup artist, asks her roommate to look after her cat, Gris-Gris, while she travels. Her roommate refuses, so she leaves the animal with Madame Renée. The cat goes missing.

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  • Netflix3.9/5
  • IMDb6.9/103,740 votes
  • Rotten Tomatoes87%

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Chloé, an assistant makeup artist, lives in the Bastille quarter of Paris and shares her apartment with a roommate. She wants to get away for a while, and she asks him to mind Gris-Gris, her cat, but he turns her down, as does everyone else she approaches. Madame Renée, an elderly woman of the neighborhood who looks after other people's cats and dogs, agrees to take the animal in. When Chloé comes back from her trip, she hears that Gris-Gris has run off. She searches the neighborhood for the cat and gets to know the residents of the quarter along the way.

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