Tymon Sutton
The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
Guillelmina
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
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!!!
ptb-8
Strange and exciting Disney drama that seems forgotten today.Very popular for about a month in 1965 in Australia, I saw this in its first release and remember it very well. Disney films of that period seemed to add particularly interesting adult themes into their films especially if they contained British kids. Like Pollyanna or The Moonspinners or Mary Poppins, this film is perfectly realized for children and has enough weight and wry humor for parents to feel the production works for many ages. I am surprised this film is so forgotten today and is almost completely unavailable. It is just as good as any of those mentioned above which are widely available.
virginia-12
A movie with everything from first class acting to a storyline where fantasy meets reality.In this case the Cat...who is also a voiceover...is really the central part of the story. Patrick McGoohan plays the vet,whose daughter Mary (played by Karen Dotrice)is owned by the Cat. Its definitely a weepie but everyone lives happily ever after as Thomasina returns from an unusual resurrection performed by Susan Hampshire...supposedly a witch!!!
