The Cat in the Hat: The Movie is a movie novelization written by Jesse Leon McCann in 2003 and based on the movie The Cat in the Hat, directed by Bo Welch in 2003. The movie features Mike Myers, Spencer Breslin, Dakota Fanning, Alec Baldwin, Kelly Preston, Amy Hill, and others.
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The Movie is based on
Book by Dr. Seuss
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Storyline
Conrad and Sally Walden live in the city of Anville with their single mother Joan, who works for neat-freak Hank Humberfloob as a real estate broker. In the process, the Cat leaves a trail of destruction throughout the house and releases two troublemaking creatures, named Thing 1 and Thing 2, from a crate which he locks and forbids Conrad to tamper with, explaining that it is a portal to his world.
Movie vs Book
Year
2003
Minutes
82
Movie Rate
4.00
Source: IMDb
Movie
The Cat in the Hat
Director: Bo Welch
Country: USA
Year: 2003
Length: 1h22m
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Year
2003
Pages
24
Book Rate
7.92
S: Goodreads
Book
The Cat in the Hat: The Movie
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“The job of the screenplay is to extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen maintaining its essence.”
BARRY EISLER (Writer)
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