His acting voice gives Beckett an excellent blend of nonchalance and misplaced bravado. He has gotten used to getting his way and it shows. He was adopted by Rose (Simone Ashley) a young lady whose main interest lies in the preservation of bee colonies. Life has been good and Beckett has grown from a tiny kitten into a rotund adult cat. Even with age on his side he remains spoiled rotten.

When Rose’s ex-boyfriend Larry (Dylan Llewellyn) comes to help with her studies, the family dynamic is thrown out of kilter and Beckett does his most underhanded work to get rid of him. During one such event, he is killed and goes to animal heaven, where he finds out he has used up all of his nine lives and is now headed to hell. The guardian of the Pearly Gates Grace (Sophie Okonedo) shows mercy on him and gives him a chance to redeem his selfish ways.

This involves Beckett going back down below as different animals and he quickly goes through his additional lives before finally learning his lesson. Getting the ingredients just right for an animated film aimed at both the young and old has never been easy. Get it too sweet and if will give its adult audience members the sugar crash, too salty and parents who monitor their young one’s intake will stay away in droves. 10 Lives nails the tightrope act with aplomb and provides a ribald journey for the adults and a sweet experience for the little ones.
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Beckett is a pampered and selfish cat who totally takes for granted the lucky hand he has been dealt. All that is about to change, however, when he carelessly loses his ninth life.

With no lives left and faced with the inevitable, Beckett pleads for things to be back to how they were. At first his request is refused but in a moment of exceptional empathy, the ‘Gatekeeper’ has a change of heart and allows him to return to earth with a whole new set of lives.

What he doesn’t realize immediately however is that each of these new lives will see him return in a variety of different forms…each one teaching him a valuable and timely lesson.

It is a journey that sees Beckett turn from gloriously self-absorbed pet to a self-sacrificing hero; because sometimes you must travel many different roads to find the very best version of yourself.
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