Stars Fell on Henrietta

Has anyone else seen this movie?

Robert Duvall is the actor in the leading role, and he has a constant
companion, a cat he calls Matilda, who is quite a character. They even go
hitchhiking together!

The casting director must have had a hard time finding a female cat to play
the role, because in numerous scenes you can clearly see Matilda's rather
large testicles.

I wonder why they didn't give the cat a masculine name? Maybe they figured
no one would notice that Matilda is actually a boycat.

I really enjoyed the movie. Robert Duvall is such a sweetie IRL too.

On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 10:35:37 -0500, "Pat"
yodeled:

Has anyone else seen this movie?

Robert Duvall is the actor in the leading role, and he has a constant
companion, a cat he calls Matilda, who is quite a character. They even go
hitchhiking together!

The casting director must have had a hard time finding a female cat to play
the role, because in numerous scenes you can clearly see Matilda's rather
large testicles.

I wonder why they didn't give the cat a masculine name? Maybe they figured
no one would notice that Matilda is actually a boycat.

I really enjoyed the movie. Robert Duvall is such a sweetie IRL too.




Sounds a bit like "Harry and Tonto" from the '70s.



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"Kreisleriana" wrote

Has anyone else seen this movie?

Robert Duvall is the actor in the leading role, and he has a constant
companion, a cat he calls Matilda, who is quite a character. They even go
hitchhiking together!

The casting director must have had a hard time finding a female cat to
play
the role, because in numerous scenes you can clearly see Matilda's rather
large testicles.

I wonder why they didn't give the cat a masculine name? Maybe they figured
no one would notice that Matilda is actually a boycat.

I really enjoyed the movie. Robert Duvall is such a sweetie IRL too.

Sounds a bit like "Harry and Tonto" from the '70s.

I remember that one vaguely. Was Art Carney in it? And wasn't "Harry" just
wandering aimlessly with the cat?

In Stars Fell, the cat helps the slave sniff out the right places to drill
for oil.

Pat wrote:
Has anyone else seen this movie?

Robert Duvall is the actor in the leading role, and he has a constant
companion, a cat he calls Matilda, who is quite a character. They
even go hitchhiking together!

The casting director must have had a hard time finding a female cat
to play the role, because in numerous scenes you can clearly see
Matilda's rather large testicles.

I wonder why they didn't give the cat a masculine name? Maybe they
figured no one would notice that Matilda is actually a boycat.

I really enjoyed the movie. Robert Duvall is such a sweetie IRL too.

It appears this film was never released on DVD, only VHS, what a pity.
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"Pat" wrote in
:

In Stars Fell, the cat helps the slave sniff out the right places to
drill for oil.


With such a pivotal role in the movie, it's a shame Ebert left the cat's
name off of the credits. Is this an example of cat-ism? Or perhaps fur-
ism?

Chak

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"Chakolate" wrote
In Stars Fell, the cat helps the slave sniff out the right places to
drill for oil.


With such a pivotal role in the movie, it's a shame Ebert left the cat's
name off of the credits. Is this an example of cat-ism? Or perhaps fur-
ism?

I think the word is speciesism.

Who's Ebert?

Kreisleriana wrote:

Robert Duvall is the actor in the leading role, and he has a constant
companion, a cat he calls Matilda, who is quite a character. They even go
hitchhiking together!

The casting director must have had a hard time finding a female cat to play
the role, because in numerous scenes you can clearly see Matilda's rather
large testicles.

Sounds a bit like "Harry and Tonto" from the '70s.

I loved Harry and Tonto. But at least Tonto was *supposed* to be male!

How bizarre to use an obviously male cat to play a female. The least
they could've done was use a long-haired cat. "Lassie" was also played
by various male dogs, but you couldn't see their plumbing under all that
long fur.

Joyce

Chakolate wrote:

"Pat" wrote in
In Stars Fell, the cat helps the slave sniff out the right places to
drill for oil.

With such a pivotal role in the movie, it's a shame Ebert left the cat's
name off of the credits. Is this an example of cat-ism? Or perhaps fur-
ism?

Species-ism, maybe?

Hey, one question for Pat. Did any disaster befall the cat in this movie?
I'm thinking of hunting it down in a local video store, but I don't want
to watch it worrying the whole time that the cat will meet a bad fate. So
that's one spoiler I don't mind getting!

Thanks,
Joyce

wrote

Did any disaster befall the cat in this movie?
I'm thinking of hunting it down in a local video store, but I don't want
to watch it worrying the whole time that the cat will meet a bad fate. So
that's one spoiler I don't mind getting!

No, the cat came out fine.

It's an enjoyable movie.

On 2006-06-04 11:18:34 -0500, "Adrian A" said:

Pat wrote:
Has anyone else seen this movie?

Robert Duvall is the actor in the leading role, and he has a constant
companion, a cat he calls Matilda, who is quite a character. They
even go hitchhiking together!

The casting director must have had a hard time finding a female cat
to play the role, because in numerous scenes you can clearly see
Matilda's rather large testicles.

I wonder why they didn't give the cat a masculine name? Maybe they
figured no one would notice that Matilda is actually a boycat.

I really enjoyed the movie. Robert Duvall is such a sweetie IRL too.

It appears this film was never released on DVD, only VHS, what a pity.

Shoot. I was looking forward to seeing it.