This was a sweet but limited insight of the lives of four ‘cat ladies’ in Ontario. Two of the women are somewhat novices to the cat lady moniker (have less than twenty cats) while the other two each have over a hundred cats. The film tracks the women’s household activities with the cats, then an attempt at explain why they do this (the novices are lonely and/or had abusive childhoods, the crazies took in every homeless cat they could find for shelter), then the ridicule they get from the Humane Society, neighbors, and the press, and finally a bit of self-regret for becoming this stereotype (though one woman, who has the least cats (less than ten I think), is convinced that cats will always be her one, true loves). The film annoyingly ignores the 2007 discovery of an actual parasite that is believed to be the blame for the ‘illness that is being a cat lady. The parasite comes from cats, and can migrate to the brain, where the effect is a tendency to collect cats (this sounds too good to be true, maybe, but it was a big story that can be read here). The film mostly ignores the death of these cats, and the emotional devastation that may or may not come from being around so many deaths for an animal that these women love so much. If you have 120 cats, several must die every year, which I would have been curious to see how they handle it. Also, I know the film is Cat Ladies, but the perspective from a male collector would have been welcome. The film was filmed in pristine video (must have been 4K), the cats are cute, and the women are crazy and entertaining. Watching the film (in a theatre filled with cat ladies, no doubt) was fun, but not much more than a superficial look at a limited sampling of a fascinating illness.