A Street Cat Named Bob is a 2016 British biographical drama film directed by Roger Spottiswoode and written by Tim John and Maria Nation.

The film stars Luke Treadaway, Ruta Gedmintas, Joanne Froggatt, Anthony Head, and Bob the Cat as himself.

James Bowen is a homeless man and former heroin addict, living on the streets of London and down to his last bits of change.

After a life-threatening drug-related incident, his support worker Val gets him into a council flat and prescribes him methadone in an attempt to get him off the street.

After letting him go, that same evening the cat returns to James's flat, this time with a purulent wound on his back leg.

One night while returning home, James finds his old friend, Baz, unconscious on his flat estate, overdosed on heroin.

On New Year's Eve, James makes an impromptu visit to his biological father, Jack, his stepmother, Hilary, and his lost sisters, Pris and Faith.

After a week of gruelling withdrawal symptoms (with Bob by his side through the whole ordeal), James awakes clean and healthy.

[7][8] The world premiere of A Street Cat Named Bob took place at the Curzon Mayfair Cinema, London on 3 November 2016 and was attended by the Duchess of Cambridge.

The site's critical consensus reads, "A Street Cat Named Bob uses a fact-based feelgood tale as the inspiration for an unapologetically heartwarming movie that should move all but the most cynical of viewers.