Catwoman (film)
Catwoman is a 2004 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name, who is traditionally an anti-heroine and love interest of the vigilante hero Batman. The plot features a new character, Patience Phillips, taking the Catwoman name, and viewing the traditional Catwoman as a historical figure. It was directed by Pitof, produced by Denise Di Novi and Edward McDonnell, and written by John Rogers, John Brancato and Michael Ferris, with music by Klaus Badelt. It starred Halle Berry, Sharon Stone, Benjamin Bratt, Lambert Wilson, Frances Conroy and Alex Borstein. Catwoman was released in cinemas on July 19, 2004, by Warner Bros. Pictures to almost universally negative reviews. The film grossed $82 million on a $100 million production budget.
Plot
Artist and graphics designer Patience Phillips (Halle Berry) is a meek people-pleaser whose main support is her best friend Sally (Alex Borstein). She works for a cosmetics company called Hedare Beauty, which is ready to ship a new skin cream, called Beau-line, that is able to reverse the effects of aging. However, when Patience visits the factory where it is being manufactured, she overhears a discussion between the scientist, Dr. Ivan Slavicky (Peter Wingfield), and Laurel Hedare (Sharon Stone), the wife of company-owner George Hedare (Lambert Wilson), about the dangerous side effects from continued use of the product. Laurel's guards discover Patience and are ordered to dispose of her. Patience tries to escape using a conduit pipe, but the minions have it sealed and flush her out of it, drowning her. Washed up on shore after drowning, Patience is mysteriously brought back to life by an Egyptian Mau cat, which had appeared at her apartment earlier; from that moment on, she develops cat-like abilities.
'Patience Phillips' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Pit Fighters (2008)
Actors: Steve Bakken (actor), Dan Barnhill (actor), Allen Bigney (actor), Garrett Brawith (actor), Brandon Brendel (actor), Jon Butler (actor), Gabriel Del Castillo (actor), Steve Charalambous (actor), Jason Ciok (actor), J. Cole (actor), Christopher Corbin (actor), Arthur Crenshaw (actor), Tony Cronin (actor), Emmanuel Delcour (actor), Louis Allen (actor),
Genres: Action, Short,Catwoman (2004)
Actors: James Ashcroft (actor), Benjamin Bratt (actor), Landy Cannon (actor), John Cassini (actor), Brett Chan (actor), Michael Daingerfield (actor), Diego Diablo Del Mar (actor), Aaron Douglas (actor), Herbert Duncanson (actor), Connor Dunn (actor), Christopher Heyerdahl (actor), Alfred Liu (actor), Byron Mann (actor), John Mann (actor), Michasha Armstrong (actor),
Plot: Catwoman is the story of shy, sensitive artist Patience Philips, a woman who can't seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a mammoth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is hiding, she finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. What happens next changes Patience forever. In a mystical twist of fate, she is transformed into a woman with the strength, speed, agility and ultra-keen senses of a cat. With her newfound prowess and feline intuition, Patience becomes Catwoman, a sleek and stealthy creature balancing on the thin line between good and bad. Like any wildcat, she's dangerous, elusive and untamed. Her adventures are complicated by a burgeoning relationship with Tom Lone, a cop who has fallen for Patience but cannot shake his fascination with the mysterious Catwoman, who appears to be responsible for a string of crime sprees plaguing the city.
Keywords: 2000s, acrobat, acrobatics, action-heroine, animal-in-title, anti-hero, ass, based-on-comic-book, box-office-flop, brawlGenres: Action, Crime,
Taglines: CATch Her In IMAX
Quotes:
Laurel Hedare: Game over!::Catwoman: Guess what? It's overtime![repeated line]::Patience Philips: Oh, my bad!
[last lines]::Catwoman: [voiceover] The day I died was the day I started to live. In my old life, I longed for someone to see what was special in me. You did, and for that, you'll always be in my heart. But what I really needed was for me to see it. And now I do. You're a good man, Tom. But you live in a world that has no place for someone like me. You see, sometimes I'm good. Oh, I'm very good. But sometimes I'm bad. But only as bad as I wanna be. Freedom is power. To live a life untamed and unafraid is the gift that I've been given, and so my journey begins.
[first lines]::Catwoman: [voiceover] It all started on the day that I died. If there had been an obituary, it would have described the unremarkable life of an unremarkable woman, survived by no one. But there was no obituary, because the day that I died was also the day I started to live. But that comes later. This was my life. Days blended together, consistently ordinary, thanks to a job that was the practical version of my passion. I was supposed to be an artist by now. Instead, I was designing ads for beauty cream.
Laurel Hedare: I was everything they wanted me to be. I was never more beautiful. Never more powerful. And then I turned 40 and they threw me away.
Catwoman: White Russian, no ice, no vodka... hold the Kahlua.
Patience Philips: [to thieves] Amateurs! You boys thought you could come in here and steal all these beautiful things? What a purrrfect idea!
Lance: Hey! Man sandwich! Twelve o'clock!
[as he's scratched and interrogated by Catwoman]::George Hedare: Get your paws off of me!
Laurel Hedare: If you have no identity, why keep it a secret?::Catwoman: Because you killed me.
