This could be the best film of all time. It has Christopher Walken and Kevin Spacey working together and comes from Barry Sonnenfeld, whose Men in Black and Addams Family films gave a dark edge to the family-friendly fun.

Nine Lives is the very latest in the limping genre of body swap cinema – Spacey is a billionaire who becomes a cat and learns the error of his rich ways. Through a series of madcap adventures he is sure to find the true meaning of each of his nine lives. What a time to be alive!

And didn’t Bill Murray really love working on Garfield? And wasn’t Grumpy Cat pretty recent?

Here’s Christopher Walken’s face.

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Here’s the poster.
Nine Lives Movie Poster

And here’s the trailer, with some images from the film to further beat you into an expectant mess.

 

M201 (Left to right.) Jennifer Garner and Melina Weissman star in EuropaCorp's "NINE LIVESÓ. Photo Credit: Takashi Seida © 2016 EuropaCorp. All rights reserved.

M266 (Left to right.) Melina Weissman, Kevin Spacey and Christopher Walken star in EuropaCorp's "NINE LIVESÓ. Photo Credit: Takashi Seida © 2015 EuropaCorp.

M185 Jennifer Garner stars in EuropaCorp's "NINE LIVESÓ. Photo Credit: Takashi Seida © 2015 EuropaCorp

Voici le synopsis pour le film sur le chat:

Tom Brand (Kevin Spacey) is a daredevil billionaire at the top of his game. His eponymous company FireBrand is nearing completion on its greatest achievement to date – the tallest skyscraper in the northern hemisphere. But Tom’s workaholic lifestyle has disconnected him from his family, particularly his beautiful wife Lara (Jennifer Garner) and his adoring daughter Rebecca (Malina Weissman).

Rebecca’s 11th birthday is here, and she wants the gift she wants every year, a cat. Tom hates cats, but he is without a gift and time is running out. His GPS directs him to a mystical pet store brimming with odd and exotic cats- where the store’s eccentric owner- Felix Perkins (Christopher Walken), presents him with a majestic tomcat, named Mr. Fuzzypants.

En route to his daughter’s party, Tom has a terrible accident. When he regains consciousness he discovers that somehow, he has become trapped inside the body of the cat. Adopted by his own family, he begins to experience what life is truly like for the family pet, and as a cat, Tom begins to see his family and his life through a new and unexpected perspective. Meanwhile, his family adjusts to life with an odd and stubborn cat, and his son David (Robbie Amell), steps up in ways Tom never expected.

If any hope exists of returning to his family as the husband and father they deserve, Tom will have to learn why he has been placed in this peculiar situation and the great lengths he must go to earn back his human existence.