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Released
2016 · FILM

A Street Cat Named Bob

A down‑and‑out busker battling addiction must choose between surviving on the streets or caring for a stray ginger cat whose unexpected companionship sparks a chance at redemption and a new life.

Sometimes it takes nine lives to save one

Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
103 min
BiographyDramaFamily

Synopsis

James Bowen, a homeless busker and recovering drug addict, has his life transformed when he meets a stray ginger cat.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Paul TothillShot by Peter WunstorfScored by David HirschfelderDesigned by Antonia Lowe

Box Office

2016 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$17.9M

Budget$8.0M
Worldwide gross$17.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $48K

Peak 24 theaters

Also known as

  • Bob, der Streunerde
  • Un gato callejero llamado Bobes
  • Un chat pour la viefr
  • A spasso con Bobit

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