Cat Person (film)
Cat Person is a 2023 psychological thriller film directed by Susanna Fogel from a screenplay by Michelle Ashford. It is 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, and was released in the United States on October 6, 2023, by Rialto Pictures. Plot

20-year-old sophomore college student Margot has a brief relationship with Robert, an older man who frequently visits the movie theater where she works. Cast
 Emilia Jones as Margot
 Nicholas Braun as Robert
 Geraldine Viswanathan as Taylor
 Isabella Rossellini as Dr. Enid Zabala
 Hope Davis as Kelly
 Fred Melamed as Dr. Resnick
 Christopher Shyer as Ernie
 Liza Koshy as Beth
 Josh Andrés Rivera as Dave
 Isaac Cole Powell as Clay
 Liza Colón-Zayas as Officer Elaine
 Michael Gandolfini as Peter

Production
"Cat Person" is a viral 2017 short story written by Kristen Roupenian for The New Yorker. On June 20, 2021, StudioCanal and Imperative Entertainment announced they would be partnering in adapting the short story into a psychological thriller, with Susanna Fogel directing from a screenplay by Michelle Ashford, and Nicholas Braun and Emilia Jones attached to star. In October 2021, Geraldine Viswanathan, Hope Davis, Michael Gandolfini, Liza Koshy, Fred Melamed, Isaac Cole Powell, Isabella Rossellini, and Donald Elise Watkins joined the cast. Production began on October 14, 2021. Filming took place in Jersey City and Newark, New Jersey. Release
Cat Person premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2023. It was released in the United States by Rialto Pictures on October 6, 2023. Following its Sundance premiere, it received distribution offers from Netflix, Bleecker Street and Open Road Films, none of which satisfied the financiers. Reception

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2023 films
2023 psychological thriller films
2023 independent films
French psychological thriller films
American psychological thriller films
English-language French films
Films based on American short stories
StudioCanal films
2020s English-language films
Films shot in New Jersey
Films shot in Newark, New Jersey
2020s French films
2020s American films