Miss Minoes

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Miss Minoes
Minoes Official Poster.png
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Vincent Bal
Screenplay by
Based on Minoes
by Annie M. G. Schmidt
Produced by Burny Bos
Starring
Cinematography Walther Vanden Ende
Edited byPeter Alderliesten
Music by Peter Vermeersch
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release date
  • 6 December 2001 (2001-12-06)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryNetherlands
LanguageDutch
Budgetƒ12 million [1]
Box office$4.8 million [2] [3]

Miss Minoes (Dutch : Minoes) is a 2001 Dutch family film written and directed by Vincent Bal and co-written and produced by Burny Bos, based on the Dutch children's novel Minoes by Annie M.G. Schmidt. The film stars Theo Maassen and Carice van Houten as the titular character.

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The film was released on 6 December 2001 in the Netherlands by Warner Bros. Pictures under their Family Entertainment label. The film won the Golden Calves for Best Feature Film and Best Actress. [4] Music Box Films released an English dubbed version on 23 December 2011 [5] in New York City [6] and Chicago. [7]

Plot

One night, a cat named Minoes stumbles upon a can of chemical liquid dropped by a truck, and after drinking it transforms into a human woman. As a human, she maintains her feline traits such as her fear of dogs, meowing on the roof with other cats, catching mice, purring, and eating raw fish. She soon meets a journalist named Tibbe, who works for the newspaper of the fictional town of Killendoorn.

Tibbe is very shy, and therefore he finds it quite hard to write good articles. At first, Tibbe does not believe she is a cat in human form, but Minoes happens to know all kinds of interesting news from the town cats, so it doesn't bother him. In exchange for food and shelter, Tibbe allows Minoes to help him with his journalist job by finding interesting news to write about. With the help of the Cat Press Service and all the news the cats bring in, Tibbe soon becomes the journalist with the best articles.

However, there is one important article that Tibbe does not dare to write: an article on the rich Mr. Ellemeet, the chemical factory owner. All town members consider him a respectable man, and a real animal lover. But all cats know that he is not what he seems. After Minoes finally convinces Tibbe to write and publish the article, the whole town turns its back on him. He loses his job and is almost evicted from his apartment.

However, Minoes helps set up a sting in which Ellemeet is filmed shooting at cats and exposed as the cruel villain he is. In the end, although Minoes has a chance to turn back into a cat by eating a bullfinch (which supposedly eats herbs that can cure many conditions such as that of a cat turning into a human), she decides to remain human and stay with Tibbe, having fallen in love with him. The film's credits reveal that the two got married.

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Release

It was a box office success, grossing $4,227,362 in the Netherlands, $111,858 in Germany, $34,164 in Austria, and $389,200 in Norway.

Critical response

The 2011 English dub received mixed reviews. Roger Ebert gave the film 2 out of 4 stars, saying that "the movie is probably ideal for those proverbial young girls who adore cats, and young boys, too. I can’t recommend it for adults attending on their own, unless they really, really love cats". [8]

Home media

The film was released on DVD and VHS on 4 October 2002 in the Netherlands by Warner Home Video. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Ockhuysen, Ronald (21 November 2001). "Potter, Minoes en De Ring zijn overal". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 26 January 2025. Retrieved 26 January 2025.
  2. ↑ "Miss Minoes (2011) - Box Office Mojo". Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  3. ↑ "Miss Minoes 2004 Re-release". Box Office Mojo.
  4. ↑ "Filmoverzicht". Nederlands Film Festival.
  5. ↑ Toumarkine, Doris (22 December 2011). "Film Review: Miss Minoes". Film Journal International . Retrieved 30 December 2011.
  6. ↑ Anderson, Melissa (21 December 2011). "Movies: Miss Minoes". The Village Voice . Retrieved 30 December 2011.
  7. ↑ "Poezenfilm Minoes naar Amerika". Algemeen Dagblad . Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  8. ↑ Ebert, Roger (21 December 2011). "The girl comes on little cat feet". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  9. ↑ van Ballegoie, Eric (11 September 2002). "Warner: Minoes 4 oktober op DVD". AllesOverFilm (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 4 January 2025. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
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