Maurice, a streetwise cat, has the perfect money-making scam. He’s found a stupid-looking kid who plays a pipe, and his very own plague of rats – rats who, strangely, are educated and literate, so Maurice can no longer think of them as “lunch”. And everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers...

However, when Maurice and the rodents reach the stricken town of Bad Blintz, their little con goes down the drain. For someone there is playing a different tune. A dark, shadowy tune. Something very, very bad is waiting in the cellars.

But Maurice wouldn’t be Maurice if he and his friends didn’t manage to save the day in the end!

Based on the book by Terry Pratchett

PRODUCTION
Cantilever Group (GB)
Ulysses Filmproduktion (DE)

DIRECTORS
Toby Genkel
Florian Westermann 

PRODUCERS
Andrew Baker
Emely Christians
Robert Chandler
Rob Wilkins

WRITERS
Terry Rossio
Terry Pratchett
Robert Chandler

CAST
Hugh Laurie
Emilia Clarke
David Thewlis
Himesh Patel
David Tennant
Gemma Arterton
Ariyon Bakare
Joe Sugg
Julie Atherton
Hugh Bonneville
Rob Brydon
Peter Serafinowicz

Awards and Nominations

• Longlisted for “Best Animated Film” at the 2023 EE BAFTA Film Awards

• Won the award for “Best Voice Performance” at the British Animation Awards 2024

• Won the “Best Animation (Pulcinella Award)” at the 27th edition of the Cartoons on the Bay Festival 2023

• Nominated for best “European Animated Feature Film” at the 36th European Film Awards in 2023

• Andrew Baker (producer) was shortlisted for Cartoon European Animation Producer of the Year.

• Won ‘Audience Choice’ Award at the Nantes Les Utopiales 2022

• Longlisted for the Best Animated Feature award at the 96th Academy Awards (OSCARS)

• Received a second-place "Honourable Mention" in the “Best Feature Film Animation” category at the Ray Harryhausen Awards

• Officially selected and featured in the "Spotlight Germany" category at the Schlingel International Film Festival

• Officially selected for the Sundance Film Festival 2023