Line #23 Film/NineLives2016


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2	''Nine Lives'' is a 2016 comedy film directed by Creator/BarrySonnenfeld.
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4	A business tycoon named [[Creator/KevinSpacey Tom Brand]] rushes to get a last minute present for his daughter Rebecca, and enters a pet shop owned by a man named [[Creator/ChristopherWalken Felix Perkins]]. He buys a cat, and quickly makes his way home. However, on the trip back, he makes a detour at his tower, and he and the cat fall off when one of his associates refuses to pull him up. When he wakes up, he's in the body of the cat while his own body is comatose.
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6	Perkins explains that he must reconcile with his family before his human body dies, or he'll be trapped as a cat forever.
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9	!! This film provides examples of:
10	* ActOfTrueLove: Tom Brand has to learn the lesson that love means sacrifice, and he expresses it by [[spoiler:throwing away his chance to prove that he is still alive and inside a cat's body in order to prevent his son David from committing suicide.]]
11	* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: When Tom’s family first adopts him as a cat they give him free reign over the house and put his food and water next to his litter box. Immediately giving a new cat free reign over a house is a terrible idea since cats need time to adjust to new surroundings. Leaving food and water next to a litter box is going to get litter into the cat’s food and water and may also {{Squick}} the cat out in ways that make it end up choosing its own place to go to the bathroom, usually one the humans in the house won't be very happy with.
12	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Tom, as a cat, drinks a dish full of brandy. Alcohol is poisonous to cats. Furthermore, he's less than a 20th of his human weight as well, so that amount of alcohol would be lethal even if cats could tolerate alcohol.
13	* BaitAndSwitchSuicide: Tom's son David comes to him in the hospital while he's in his coma to tell him he's going to take a jump from the top of the company building. Tom (who is trapped in the body of his daughter's cat), fears that his son is about to commit suicide. David jumps and Tom (as the cat) follows, only for David to launch a parachute towards the bottom. It turns out he wasn't trying to kill himself, it was a publicity stunt to outshow a competitive company for trying to build a larger HQ.
14	* BlackComedyAnimalCruelty: At one point, two security guards decide to tase a cat, and this is portrayed as being funny.
15	* BreakTheHaughty: Tom after he's switched bodies with a cat.
16	* ButtMonkey: Tom Brand to an extent.%%How?
17	* CatsAreMean: Discussed at the beginning and end of the movie.
18	* CatsAreSnarky: To be fair, Tom already was snarky before he became one.
19	* CatsHaveNineLives: A cat recovers from falling off a tower due to being on his eighth life and having one left.
20	* CuteButCacophonic: Tom as a cat. Cat owners who watch this movie will be glad that their cat(s) is not as noisy as him.
21	* DrivenToSuicide: {{Subverted\|Trope}}. See BaitAndSwitchSuicide.
22	* ChekhovsGun: The wingsuit and the dancing.%%How?
23	* ForcedTransformation: Tom is turned into a cat.
24	* HollywoodLaw: Executives can't be summarily fired, since their employment is under contract and they have clauses that restrict this. A majority shareholder also can't do things which damage the minority shareholders' stake in the company, as continuing the tower construction would.
25	* IncendiaryExponent: Invoked with the name of Tom's company, Firebrand.
26	* INeedAFreakingDrink: Tom after turning into a cat, going to great lengths to get alcohol.
27	* InstantExpert: Tom goes from barely able to climb on a counter to flawlessly descending buildings in about a day.
28	* JerkassHasAPoint: The board of directors are uninterested in expanding the tower, as at this point the only real reason for expansion would be for their company (and Tom) to be the owners of the tallest building in North America - which is becoming a waste of money.
29	-->'''Executive:''' We're not running a charity for your ego, Tom.
30	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tom. Even before his transformation he's not really a bad guy, just too focused on business to be a good husband and father. Even his ex-wife concedes that he loved his family even if he doesn't show it. Once he was able to see firsthand how much his family missed him, he realized how much he took them for granted.
31	* KarmicTransformation: Tom hates cats. Guess what he turns into? It's implied that Mr. Perkins does this on a regular basis to people who hate cats.
32	-->'''Perkins:''' It's the not the end of the world, Tom. You're a cat.
33	-->'''Tom:''' But I hate cats.
34	-->'''Perkins:''' That's what makes this so perfect.
35	* LiteralTransformativeExperience: Tom Bran is trapped in the body of a cat and forced to reconcile with his estranged family in order to regain human form, eventually realizing just how badly he took them for granted along the way.
36	* LadyDrunk: Tom's ex-wife.
37	-->'''Lara:''' Let's get you a new martini.
38	-->'''Madison:''' YES.
39	* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailers and commercials for the film were edited to make it look like Perkins magically transformed Tom into being a cat rather than placing his soul inside of a cat after he was gravely injured.
40	* SpiritualSuccessor: To the bizarre Creator/ChevyChase and Film/{{Benji}} movie ''Film/OhHeavenlyDog''.
41	* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Mr. Perkins.
42	* ThatPoorCat
43	* TricksterMentor: Mr. Perkins, portrayed by Creator/ChristopherWalken in a role similar to his character in ''Film/{{Click}}''.
44	* UrineTrouble
45	* TheUsurper: Ian Cox.
46	* WellDoneSonGuy: David, Tom's son.How?
47	* WolverinePublicity: This movie was heavily promoted by popular cats on social media, including [[http://lilbub.com/ Lil Bub]] and [[https://nalacat.com/ Nala Cat]], stating that they were going to be in the movie. Nonetheless, they are just small cameos (with Lil Bub being more noticeable).

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