Children's Books Produced As Feature Films/The Cat in the Hat

The Cat in the Hat

The Cat in the Hat Book

In the first book featuring the character (The Cat in the Hat, 1957), the Cat brings a cheerful, exuberant form of chaos to a household of two young children one rainy day while their mother leaves them unattended. Bringing with him two creatures appropriately named Thing One and Thing Two, the Cat performs all sorts of wacky tricks to amuse the children, with mixed results. The Cat's antics are vainly opposed by the family pet, who is a sentient and articulate goldfish. The children (Sally and her older brother, who serves as the narrator) ultimately prove exemplary latchkey children, capturing the Things and bringing the Cat under control. To make up for the chaos he has caused, he cleans up the house on his way out, disappearing seconds before the mother arrives.

The Cat in the Hat Movie

Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat is a 2003 American live-action film adaptation of the 1957 book. It was produced by Brian Grazerand directed by Bo Welch; it stars Mike Myers in the title role of the Cat in the Hat, and Dakota Fanning as Sally. Sally's brother, who is not named in the book, is known in this version as "Conrad" and played by Spencer Breslin. While the basic plot of the live-action adaptation of The Cat in the Hat rotates around that of the book, the film added new (pointless) subplots and the characters quite different from those of the original story. This movie has mature content and is crude at times - much different from the original story.