A cat in cat debt to the cat mafia. Venice just got fur-real.
After years of maneuvering the canal-ridden, superstitious city, a black cat named Nero begins to question whether he’s lived the right lives. Indebted to a local feline mob boss, Nero finds himself in a quandary and is forced to forge a truly unexpected friendship that may finally lead him to his purpose—unless Venice gets the better of him first.
Direction
Casarosa's Venice looks wet enough to touch.
Production
Feline mob hierarchy: researched or witnessed?
Writing
Cat puns so bad they loop back to genius.
Director
Enrico Casarosa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Casarosa reportedly spent months studying real Venetian stray cats and their territorial 'families'—the mob structure is allegedly documentary-accurate.
The film's working title was simply 'Nine' until Pixar realized they'd already made a movie about numbered existence.
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