rafename Review of Cat Dancers

Cat Dancers (2007)

An oddball's version of *SPOILER ALERT* 2 tiger attacks

[6/10 · 22 September 2013]

The HBO film Cat Dancers is less documentary than it is home movies & propaganda by Ron Holiday (real name Ron Guay). It's hard to believe his wife Joy Holiday (real name Doris Gagnon) was drunk (twice the legal limit) after not eating for weeks and walked out to visit the cats despite being suicidal. It is also odd that the younger member of the polygamists threesome was passed out asleep and didn't get dressed to help move the tigers. Director Harris Fishman does not bother getting any interviews with police, coroner, friends or witnesses. We only have a weird blow hard playing victim with hyperbole and denials. I find it disgusting to force wild animals into cages and perform silly acts such as jumping on a disco ball on hind legs or being ridden by the old woman who was killed by a tiger Ron later claimed he didn't know was inbred. He also put down 2 of the cats when he was evicted which puts his claim of loving the animal into question. Surely he could have found a refuge for them. We can't know because we only hear a phone call to the estranged mother of Chuck Lizza, who hasn't seen her son in years (according to Ron) & seems suspicious. The story is interesting for the creepy factor more than informative. Worth watching for the freak show and outrage than quality film making.