''Spy Cat'' (german: Marnie's Welt),Spy Cat (Marnie's Welt)
at ''Cineuropa'' – the best of European cinema. Retrieved 1 July 2021. also known by its German name ''Marnie's World'', is a 2018 German-Belgian 3D

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written and directed by brothers

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and

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. The film was loosely inspired by the German

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''.

Release

''Spy Cat'' had its world premiere at the

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on 13 June 2018, before being theatrically released in Portugal on 14 March 2019. It was released in Germany on 18 April and Belgium on 1 May. The film had a worldwide gross of $3,440,104, but received generally negative reviews from critics. For its British theatrical release, the film was slightly cut to remove a comical scene of a man urinating against another man accidentally when he's distracted in order to receive a U rating from the

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. An uncut PG classification was available.Spy Cat

– ''bbfc.co.uk''. Retrieved 1 July 2021. In 2020, an English dubbed version of ''SpyCat'' was released with influencer

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now voicing the character of Marnie.

References

External links

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