The Amazing Maurice

96 min | 12 Jan 2023

Mild fantasy themes

This story follows Maurice, a streetwise cat, who has the perfect money-making scam. He finds a dumb-looking kid who plays a pipe and has his very own horde of rats.

Rats! They’re everywhere… In the breadbins, dancing across the tabletops, stealing pies from under the cook’s noses. So, what does every town need? A good piper to lure them away.
That’s where Maurice, a streetwise tomcat with the perfect money-making scam, comes in. Everyone has heard of the stories about the pied piper and the town full of rodents. So, Maurice has found his very own pied piper and a plague of rats to trick gullible townsfolk into giving him lots of cash.
All is going well until they arrive in the far-flung village of Bad Blintz where they meet a book obsessed girl called Malicia, who enlists their help to solve the mystery of her town ...

Director
Toby Genkel
Cast
Gemma Arterton, David Thewlis, Hugh Laurie, Emilia Clarke, Himesh Patel
Genre
Animation, Family
Rating
PG (Mild fantasy themes)
Release Date
12 January 2023
Runtime
96 min
Language
English