In “Nine Lives,” Kevin Spacey plays a man who gets trapped inside the body of his family’s cat. With that, the Oscar-winning actor joins these other big-screen kitties.
• Oliver: “Oliver & Company” was an animated film based on Dickens’ “Oliver Twist,” but they added kitty cats and music and took away the scathing indictment of systemic economic oppression.
• Milo: This orange tabby was half of the titular team in “The Adventures of Milo and Otis,” about a dog and a cat trying to get home. They rely on the dog’s loyalty and keen sense of smell and the cat’s ability to run around screaming at 2 in the morning.
• Cat: In “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” Cat appears in the climactic scene — in the rain, squooshed between a kissing Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard. The cat actor, Orangey, repaid such undignified treatment by declaring the whole set his litterbox.
