History Film / CatsEye

* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: During "Quitters, Inc.", Dick attends a lavish party while trying not to smoke. Unfortunately, Dick's withdrawal causes him to start hallucinating that numerous guests are smoking, offering him cigarettes, and that Donatti is also watching him.

* ''Quitters, Inc.'' -- After narrowly escaping a certain rabid dog, the cat hides in a tobacco truck and ends up in New York City. The cat sees a vision of a little girl begging it to protect her from something. Before anymore information can be learned, the cat is picked up and taken by Junk, an employee of Quitters, Inc. Meanwhile, longtime smoker Dick Morrison (Creator/JamesWoods) is persuaded to try the company by a friend to curb his addiction to cigarettes. Dick learns from the company president, Vinnie Donatti, that the company has a 100% success rate in curing addiction. Vinnie explains this is due to the company's rather "radical" methods of persuasion. Every time Dick gives in to temptation, they threaten to torture his family with a variety of horrific methods, each one worse than the last (the cat is seen demonstrating one of these tortures, an electrified floor, early in the story). After the segment, the cat escapes New York by hopping on board the Staten Island Ferry.

* ''Quitters, Inc.'' -- After narrowly escaping a certain rabid dog, the cat hides in a tobacco truck and ends up in New York City. The cat sees a vision of a little girl begging it to protect her from something. Before anymore information can be learned, the cat is picked up and taken by Junk, an employee of Quitters, Inc. Meanwhile, longtime smoker Dick Morrison (Creator/JamesWoods) is persuaded to try the company by a friend to curb his addiction to cigarettes. Dick learns from the company president, Vinnie Donatti, that the company has a 100% success rate in curing addiction. Vinnie explains this is due to the company's rather "radical" methods of persuasion. Every time Dick gives in to temptation, they threaten to punish his family with a variety of horrific methods, including rape and torture (the cat is seen demonstrating one of these tortures, an electrified floor, early in the story). After the segment, the cat escapes New York by hopping on board the Staten Island Ferry.

* ''Quitters, Inc.'' -- After narrowly escaping a certain rabid dog, the cat hides in a tobacco truck and ends up in New York City. The cat sees a vision of a little girl begging it to protect her from something. Before anymore information can be learned, the cat is picked up and taken by Junk, an employee of Quitters, Inc. Meanwhile, longtime smoker Dick Morrison (Creator/JamesWoods) is persuaded to try the company by a friend to curb his addiction to cigarettes. Dick learns from the company president, Vinnie Donatti, that the company has a 100% success rate in curing addiction. Vinnie explains this is due to the company's rather "unique" methods of persuasion. Every time Dick gives in to temptation, they threaten to punish his family with a variety of horrific methods, including rape and torture (the cat is seen demonstrating one of these tortures, an electrified floor, early in the story). After the segment, the cat escapes New York by hopping on board the Staten Island Ferry.

* ''Quitters, Inc.'' -- After narrowly escaping a certain rabid dog, the cat hides in a tobacco truck and ends up in New York City. The cat sees a vision of a little girl begging it to protect her from something. Before anymore information can be learned, the cat is picked up and taken by Junk, an employee of Quitters, Inc. Meanwhile, longtime smoker Dick Morrison (Creator/JamesWoods) is persuaded to try the company by a friend to curb his addiction to cigarettes. Dick learns from the company president, Vinnie Donatti, that the company has a 100% success rate in curing addiction. Vinnie explains this is due to the company's rather "unique" methods. Every time Dick gives in to temptation, they threaten to torture his family with a variety of horrific punishments (the cat is seen demonstrating one of these early in the story). After the segment, the cat escapes New York by hopping on board the Staten Island Ferry.

* ''Quitters, Inc.'' -- After narrowly escaping a certain rabid dog, the cat hides in a tobacco truck and ends up in New York City. The cat sees a vision of a little girl begging it to protect her from something. Before anymore information can be learned, the cat is picked up and taken by Junk, an employee of Quitters, Inc. Meanwhile, longtime smoker Dick Morrison (Creator/JamesWoods) is persuaded to try the company by a friend to curb his addiction to cigarettes. Dick learns from the company president, Vinnie Donatti, that the company has a 100% success rate in curing addiction. Vinnie explains this is due to the company's rather "unique" methods. Every time Dick gives in to temptation, they threaten to torture his family with a variety of horrific punishments. (the cat is seen demonstrating one of these early in the story). After the segment, the cat escapes New York by hopping on board the Staten Island Ferry.

* ''Quitters, Inc.'' -- Longtime smoker Dick Morrison (Creator/JamesWoods) discovers how far a mysterious company claiming to be the end-all cure for smoking will go to make it happen. (The cat becomes part of the company's demonstration of its methods.)

In the film, a stray cat links together three tales of suspense and horror:

* AdaptedOut: The shorty story ''Quitters Inc'' has Dick actually giving the companies card too another unhappy smoker some time after his own ordeal, but the film apparently thought that would be too much after all he was forced to endure. In the print version of ''The Ledge'' Cressner mentions that he'd offered various debtors of his the opportunity to risk the ledge before in exchange for their slates being wiped clean and only one had the courage to actually make the attempt but gave up after a few minutes.

ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: After Cressner goes back on his word and [[spoiler:reveals that he has murdered his wife]], he tries to buy his way out by offering an enraged and gun-toting Norris millions of dollars. Norris has a much better plan for revenge -- make Cressner the same offer to walk around the ledge and gain his freedom as the one he offered him.

* ''Quitters, Inc.'' -- Longtime smoker Dick Morrison discovers how far a mysterious company claiming to be the end-all cure for smoking will go to make it happen. (The cat becomes part of the company's demonstration of its methods.)
* ''The Ledge'' -- A casino owner named Cressner kidnaps gambler Johnny Norris (who's been sleeping with Cressner's wife) and makes a bet with him: if he can make it around the narrow ledge of Cressner's penthouse, Cressner will divorce his wife, but if Norris refuses to try, he'll be framed for drug possession. (The cat is picked up by Cressner early in the story and plays a role in its climax.)
* ''The General'' -- The cat finds its way to North Carolina, where it becomes the adopted pet of a little girl. The girl, whose voice the cat had heard in its head earlier in the film, is in danger due to a troll living in her wall. Only the cat can stop the troll...but the troll isn't going down without a fight.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Cressner points out to Johnny that General (named "Sebastian" at the time) liking the latter is a good sign of his luck walking around the ledge. [[spoiler: Later, when Cressner runs past General, the latter hisses at him. What kind of sign do you suppose ''that'' is?]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: Johnny gets to [[PayEvilUntoEvil repay]] Cressner for his cruelty by forcing him at gunpoint to undergo the same ordeal: moving about the five inch ledge.]]

* {Foreshadowing}: Cressner points out to Johnny that General (named "Sebastian" at the time) liking the latter is a good sign of his luck walking around the ledge. [[spoiler: Later, when Cressner runs past General, the latter hisses at him. What kind of sign do you suppose ''that'' is?]]

* {{Foreshadowing:}} Cressner points out to Johnny that General (named "Sebastian" at the time) liking the latter is a good sign of his luck walking around the ledge. [[spoiler: Later, when Cressner runs past General, the latter hisses at him. What kind of sign do you suppose ''that'' is?]]

'''Ducky''': It's for horses, sometimes for cows. Pigs don't eat it because they don't know how.

SrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: After Cressner goes back on his word and [[spoiler:reveals that he has murdered his wife]], he tries to buy his way out by offering an enraged and gun-toting Norris millions of dollars. Norris has a much better plan for revenge -- make Cressner the same offer to walk around the ledge and gain his freedom as the one he offered him.

'''Ducky:''' It's for horses, sometimes for cows. Pigs don't eat it because they don't know how.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: After Cressner goes back on his word and [[spoiler:reveals that he has murdered his wife]], he tries to buy his way out by offering an enraged and gun-toting Norris millions of dollars. Norris has a much better plan for revenge -- make Cressner the same offer to walk around the ledge and gain his freedom as the one he offered him.

* KarmaHoudini: The mysterious managers of Quitters, Inc. - in fact, right at the end it's revealed that they have gotten away with their intimidation and mutilation many times before.

* ProperlyParanoid: Though only Amanda truly believes that the troll [[spoiler:framed General for killing the parakeet]], Amanda's father finds it suspicious that General somehow got such a large slash mark, while the mother, who is conversely and plainly TheParanoiac towards cats, dismisses him when he brings it up.

* CurtainCamouflage: In "Quitters,Inc.", Dick sees a pair of boots behinds a row of coats in his closet. He delivers an impassioned plea about how he wasn't smoking. The next morning, the boots are gone and there are muddy footprints leading away from the closet.

* ElectricTorture: In "Quitters,Inc.", the punishment for a first slip is a loved one being placed barefoot in a room with mesh floor that is electrified enough to give them a nasty shock but not to seriously injure them. The quitter is forced to watch them dance about in agony.

* MeatOVision: In "Quitters,Inc.", Dick attends a party where he has a bizarre hallucination of everybody smoking in very strange ways, and sees two women as giant packs of cigarettes.

* ExactWords: Cressner prides himself on never welshing on a bet. He promises Norris that if he wins, Norris will have his car cleaned of drugs, a bag of cash, and Cressner's wife. He delivers all three, [[spoiler:but what Norris receives is the wive's head]].