i cant believe i find this movie . i use to watch this movie every year faithfully when i be 6 or 7 yrs old . i cry each time . and i mean i cry bcz i connect immediately and directly with the entire movie character ( s ) and surroundings and especially the cat . j. t. be from harlem and i grow up in the bronx and ny . i live in poverty just a he do he keep his cat in a stove in an abandoned building . we use to turn our oven on daily to keep the apt warm bcz we have no heat . my bedroom window face the back of another building and alley and and in that alley live a large poor family that always have stray cat . these cat use to breed litter of kitten and i use to always go to their house to play with the kitten . i be always bring a kitten home always a black kitten and would beg my mom to let me keep the kitten but she would always say no . the one or two time she let me have the kitten and after some time and she would wind up tell me i have to get rid of him . to this day i have a resentment towards her for that i remember too the stupid boy on my block use to hurt and kill cat swing em by their tail off rooftop or chase the dog or cat till they get hit by car . i use to cry all the time and especially because i experience so much sadness when i saw the stray cat in my neighborhood who i want to bring home but couldn not and i would see these kitten or cat every day . i would play with them and give them what i can to eat . i grow into adulthood acting and feel the same way towards cat or dog feed stray and feel sadness because they be stray and wish i can bring every last one of them home and i be one of the big animal lover you could know . when j. t. take care of his cat i swear i relate so much to him . the end of the movie i would cry so hard and i would be sad for day . this movie stick me deeply to the point now and i be 46 yr old and still think about this movie and happen to look it up to see if i can purchase it somewhere and find some lead ( i hope ) . i be definitely buy the dvd and i guarantee you when i watch it again i will be cry just a i do when i be a kid . today and i be happy a hell to say i own a cat ( smile ) and my cat be black . just a the kitten be that i use to always bring home and the same a j. t. cat ( minus the white marking and my cat have a white tip at his tail ) . i still love j. t. and his cat .