

When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves.
Direction
July's hyper-specific, deeply uncomfortable intimacy with her own characters.
Acting
Linklater's devastating stillness vs. July's anxious physicality.
Writing
The talking cat narration that somehow crushes your soul.

Director
Miranda July
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
July performed Paw-Paw's voice without pitch-shifting, creating that uncanny child-cat hybrid by speaking in a specific physical posture.
The 'stop-motion t-shirt' scene became a viral micro-genre of its own, with hundreds of DIY imitations on early 2010s YouTube—July essentially invented a specific internet aesthetic.