IEmmaSkeptic As a 7-year-old I was excited to see a movie where the girl was the hero who had adventures. The movie was The Three Lives of Thomasina. It turned out that Thomasina was a cat belonging to a little girl. The cat dies leaving a broken-hearted little girl and the DEAD CAT goes off to have adventures! What a rip!Carl Jung finds that the hero's adventure is is fundamental to the collective unconscious. I didn't know about Jung at 7, but I did have a well formed notion of heroes and adventures, and I knew that girls did not act as heroes and go off to have adventures and quests. Cartoons such as Mighty Mouse were just plain insulting telling girls that you need to be rescued, you cannot solve the problems you face yourself. So I was hungry for this movie. I can only imagine how my tiny face dropped in the dark as I realized that the dead cat living the remainder of its nine lives was the premise of the film.

jepalmer When I was a young lad, I saw this movie, and it touched me. There are just some movies, that do that. The desperation of Andrew finding trying to find the cat, and at the end, it warms you and you cannot help but have a tear in your eye. Susan Hampshire is beautiful in this movie, in both character and attractiveness. The other character actors hold their own as well. The scenery is nice. The movie is a bit dated in certain parts, but there is no profanity or scenes that might be disturbing to young children. This movie is available in both VHS and DVD, but definitely buy the DVD for the extra features, plus it will keep it from wearing out when your children or grandchildren want to watch it again. A wonderful family movie to keep ready for that rainy day. Enjoy!!!

Lee Eisenberg "The Three Lives of Thomasina" is a Disney movie, so you know what that means. One of the surprising things is that the dad is played by Patrick McGoohan, who more recently played King Edward in "Braveheart". How do ya like that: in one movie, he lived in Scotland; in the other, he invaded it! Overall, I think that the movie goes a little too far in trying to tug at your emotions. My favorite cat-themed movie is "Cat's Eye", based on a Stephen King novel. As for movies with "three" in the title, I most recommend "Three Days of the Condor".So, there are better movies out there, especially considering that this came out the same year as "Dr. Strangelove", "A Fistful of Dollars" and "Zorba the Greek". And I thought that the portrayals of the gypsies was kinda racist. The only other cast member whom I recognized was Wilfrid Brambell, better known as Paul's grandfather in "A Hard Day's Night".I know that it's a little weird that in a review of a movie about a magical cat, I mentioned "Braveheart", "Three Days of the Condor", "Dr. Strangelove", "A Fistful of Dollars", "Zorba the Greek", the Beatles and Stephen King, but that's just the kind of person that I am.

regisgoat If you're fond of the little fur-bearing parasites this is a movie you cannot watch without a large hankerchief. It's superior to the current family movies in a number of reasons; lovely color, the realism of a vet's life, delightful Scots Highlands locations, a fine dramatic structure bolstered by that underrated actor Patrick Macgoohan and by a pretty, startlingly black-eyed starlet named Susan Hampshire (the two represent science and faith, respectively, and they come together with an ease you wish these two opponents would share today). But the film is mostly about the tragedy of losing a cat, and the childish, unkillable hope that one day they'll return. The sequence of cat heaven, ruled by the Goddess Bast, is reminiscent of the best of Michael Powell, explicitly referencing Powell's A Matter of Life and Death. The excellent animation is done by the pioneer of the cartoon industry Ub Iweks. A family movie in the day when kids were tougher, it was memorably broadcast on Disney's Wonderful World of Color on TV. I Expect wracking sobs in the scene where a rain- soaked Thomasina comes to the window. Jeez, I'm tearing up right now, just thinking about it.