This is the story of how a man saves a cat. What’s remarkable is this man claims to prefer dogs, and even more remarkable is that this man and this cat happen to be pursued by a pair of Russian mafia enforcers, a Puerto Rican gangster, a corrupt cop and two Hasidic assassins. No easy feat.

Our hero, Hank (Austin Butler) comes into this cat, Bud, thanks to his neighbor, Russ (Matt Smith), in the hallway of their derelict walk-up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. A London punk in a Mohawk, spikes and leather, Russ implores Hank to feed Bud while he’s visiting family in England for a few days. Hank, just returning home from closing down the dive bar where he slings drinks, his maybe/maybe not girlfriend Yvonne (Zoë Kravitz) on his arm, is in no position to say no. But it’s Bud — and Russ

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