My wife and I watched this at home, streaming via Netflix. It starts off a bit slow, we were unsure where it was going, but once Bob came into the story it all picked up. All-in-all a really worthwhile movie, highly recommended.
It is a story of a real London busker who got into drugs and was having a hard time navigating through life. He was a reasonably talented songwriter and singer, usually somewhere in London with his guitar. Playing for small change, hoping to buy a meal at the end of the day, and finding a place to crash the night on the cardboard he stashed for the purpose. Luke Treadaway plays the main character, James.
Helped along by Joanne Froggatt as Val, the social worker, James is given a rough little apartment to stay in and regular methadone treatments to help him kick his drug habit. One day he hears a noise, thinks it is an intruder and it was ... a ginger colored cat that slipped in through an opened window. James tries to find its owners, to no avail. He tries to shoo the cat away, but can't. So he keeps him and names him Bob (played by the real Bob the Cat).
What follows is a heartwarming account of how being responsible for Bob, and having a companion, was key to James being about to kick his habit and turn his life around. With Bob on his shoulder they attracted bigger audiences and got bigger tips. Eventually a newspaper article leads to a publishing house arranging, with a ghost writer, to have James write his story and the book became a best seller.
Good movie! And Bob does such a good job.
It is a story of a real London busker who got into drugs and was having a hard time navigating through life. He was a reasonably talented songwriter and singer, usually somewhere in London with his guitar. Playing for small change, hoping to buy a meal at the end of the day, and finding a place to crash the night on the cardboard he stashed for the purpose. Luke Treadaway plays the main character, James.
Helped along by Joanne Froggatt as Val, the social worker, James is given a rough little apartment to stay in and regular methadone treatments to help him kick his drug habit. One day he hears a noise, thinks it is an intruder and it was ... a ginger colored cat that slipped in through an opened window. James tries to find its owners, to no avail. He tries to shoo the cat away, but can't. So he keeps him and names him Bob (played by the real Bob the Cat).
What follows is a heartwarming account of how being responsible for Bob, and having a companion, was key to James being about to kick his habit and turn his life around. With Bob on his shoulder they attracted bigger audiences and got bigger tips. Eventually a newspaper article leads to a publishing house arranging, with a ghost writer, to have James write his story and the book became a best seller.
Good movie! And Bob does such a good job.