Miss Moxy

Logline

A domesticated cat gets lost during a holiday and must find her way back home through Europe with the help of the most despicable creatures a cat can imagine: A dog and a bird. During this journey, she broadens her outlook on life and discovers the true meaning of friendship.

Synopsis

MISS MOXY is a handsome, musical, somewhat arrogant and domesticated cat, who lives with JOOSJE (9) and her parents in a neighborhood of a medium-sized city in the Netherlands.

Joosje and Miss Moxy love each other and enjoy playing the piano together. Outside, Miss Moxy has a group of cat friends, The Pink Ladies. Under the leadership of PINK, they rule the neighborhood and regard everyone but them as idiots who stink or just come for food.

One day Joosje and her parents go on holiday to a farm in the south of France and Joosje smuggles Miss Moxy along with her. The holiday farm is run by RITA (40), who seems very nice, but in reality is a very mean and ambitious landlady. Rita has a dog, a boxer named TUUR, who she trains to walk a tightrope, dressed in a sailor suit, in preparation for the Animals Got Talent Show. The show will be broadcast around the world. Rita sees her chances increasing in the beautiful piano-playing Miss Moxy and secretly locks her in the basement. Joosje searches everywhere for Miss Moxy, but in the end the family has to go home without her, leaving both Joosje and Miss Moxy shattered.

Miss Moxy now only wants one thing: to go home. Tuur is a guard at the door of her prison. She devises a ruse by portraying her home as a dog’s paradise of freedom and promising to show him how to get there. He gets in and she leaves.

It is the beginning of a long adventurous journey in which Miss Moxy, initially reluctantly, learns to accept the help of a dog and an old bird, creatures that The Pink Ladies despised at home…

Adventure / road movie

Family (all)

85′

Dutch / Flemish / English (dub)

3D CG

Expected release (NL): summer 2025

Credits
  • Director: Vincent Bal, Wip Vernooij
  • Screenplay: Maureen Verspille
  • Production designer: Sander Kamermans
  • Animation director: Wip Vernooij, Lewis van der Werf
  • Composers songs: Willem Vanderstichele, Nele Van den Broek, Flip Kowlier
  • Composers score: Steve Willaert
  • Sound design: Hans Tourne, Stijn Jacobs
  • Cast / Dutch:
    • Sarah Bannier - Miss Moxy
    • Carice van Houten - Pink
    • Meral Polat - Constance
    • Esther Scheldwacht - Mies
    • Jessica Zeylmaker - Hanna
    • Sana Amina Bouchti - Joosje
    • Roue Verveer - Rudi
    • Jetty Mathurin - Omi
    • Sidar Toksoz - Ekster 1
    • Daniel Kolf - Ekster 2
  • Cast / Flemish:
    • Pieter Embrechts - Tuur
    • Frank Focketeyn - Ayo
    • Barbara Sarafian - Rita
    • Tom Vermeir - Gerard
  • Producer: Phanta Animation, BosBros
  • Co-producer: Eyeworks film,-& TV drama
  • Animation studios:
    • Capybara (NL)
    • Fabrique Fantastique (BE)
  • Sales agent: Studio 100 Media (DE)
  • Ditributor Benelux: Paradiso Film
  • Broadcaster The Netherlands: AVROTROS
  • Supported by: Dutch Film Fund, Dutch Film Fund-Production Incentive, Creative Europe, Belgium Taks Shelter, Screen Flanders, VAF film Fund