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Cat Person is a 2023 psychological thriller film directed by Susanna Fogel from a screenplay by Michelle Ashford, based on the 2017 short story of the same name by Kristen Roupenian. The film stars Emilia Jones, Nicholas Braun, Geraldine Viswanathan, Hope Davis, Fred Melamed, and Isabella Rossellini.
Cat Person premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2023. The film was released in the United States on October 6, 2023, by Rialto Pictures.
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Plot
College sophomore Margot works at a local movie theater. Her roommate, Taylor, moderates a feminist subreddit called "The Vagenda", and tends to see the worst in men. Margot begins dating a frequent visitor of the movie theater, Robert. Margot begins to imagine Robert violently attacking her.
After their first official date, Robert learns Margot is only 20. They are turned away from a bar and return to his house to have sex. Throughout the encounter, Margot speaks to a second version of herself. Her other self tries to convince her to tell Robert she has changed her mind. Instead, Margot has sex with him and fakes an orgasm, telling her other self she is afraid of violent retaliation. She discovers Robert is 33, and notes that the house has no sign of the cats he mentioned in his texts.
