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2023 film directed by Ava Zinn

Caprice & Ella: The Movie is a 2023 American black comedy film directed by Ava Zinn in her feature film directorial debut and produced by Karly Jameson. It stars Ava Zinn, Caprice Zinn, and Ella Zinn. It is slated for release in July 2023.^[1]

Plot

After Ava brings Caprice and Ella home, Jenna, Ava's daughter-in-law visits them. Their pet beds catch fire when they shorts out the clown lights, and Jenna calls them "The Devil". Caprice and Ella later wins a golf game by belting rival golfers with a golf club for bullying them. Horrified, Ava realizes she needs to hire a pet sitter and put them in a pet day care facility.

On Caprice and Ella's first day of pet day care, they finds that Ivann Ozbourne is the principal at the facility. Horrified, Ms. Ozbourne promptly promotes Caprice and Ella to the senior pet class to avoid dealing with them for four years. There, Casprice meets Garfield and Heathcliff, the pet day care bullies, and gets on their bad side when Caprice tapes Heathcliff to the dry erase board after Garfield tries to kiss Caprice. Heathcliff retaliates by dropping a heavy and blunt object on Caprice and Ella, but it misses them and hits Ava instead, knocking her out. When Ava comes to, she sees the facility's nurse/vet, Bethanie Grubb, and becomes smitten with her. Caprice and Ella, annoyed at Ava's sudden love interest, attempts to vandalize Bethanie's picture hanging in the hall, only to be foiled by Jackson, Bethanie's male gray cat, who is as mischievous as Caprice and Ella. When Caprice confronts Jackson for harassing her, Jackson states that he can harass anybody he wants and punctuates his point by giving Caprice a lit M-80. Caprice and Ella panics and promptly flushes it, and it explodes right when their teacher, Ms. Thorn, sits on the toilet. Throughout the film, Caprice, Ella and Jackson engage in an escalating prank war.

Ava decides to date again to find a new wife and pet mother, but Caprice and Ella are against it. They thwarts Ava's first date by phoning her jealous former husband (who has since underwent a sex change), who storms into the restaurant and picks a fight with Ava. Caprice and Ella also videotapes their irresponsible babysitter having sex with her boyfriend and broadcasts it to the entire neighborhood as well as on Ava's Ring video doorbell. Ava reminds Caprice and Ella they are new in the neighborhood and must attempt to fit in.

That evening, Ava's daughter-in-law, Jenna with her daughter Alisan, niece Leah, and nephew Michael, arrive to live with them after she loses custody of Allisan, Leah, and Michael following the deaths of Ava's daughters Samantha in November 2020 and Tiffani in August 2021. Ava's second date goes even worse when Caprice and Ella place several mousetraps in and round the Ring video doorbell, and the woman gets injured. Around the same time, Alicia Wayne, the richest, snootiest, kid-hating woman in Fort Wayne, takes an interest in Ava, while being horrified by Caprice and Ella's past. While Caprice, Ella, Alisan, Leah, Michael, and Ava are gone, she redecorates the house to impress Ava.

Meanwhile, Ava takes Caprice, Ella, Alisan, Leah, and Michael to the carnival during the Three Rivers Festival. After being taunted by Jackson, Garfield and Heathcliff for being too short to ride the Crazy Dance, as well as seeing Jackson cheat his way on by wearing platform shoes, Ella relives herself on the ride's floor while Caprice tampers with the ride by turning its settings up to maximum speed, causing everyone, including Jackson and Heathcliff, to get sick and vomit all over each other (including throwing up hairballs) and the entire ride to eventually break down. On the way home, a disappointed Ava makes Caprice and Ella promise to behave.

However, when Caprice and Ella learns that Alicia redecorated their beds with a clown theme, which they detests, they swiftly reneges on their promise and retaliates by putting live mice in her dinner. Disgusted and angered, she threatens to send him to boarding school in Saudi Arabia when she is their pet mother. They try to tell Ava this, but Ava refuses to believe them, saying Caprice and Ella are no longer credible.

At a pet day care function, a puppet show goes awry. Ava is surprised to see Jackson, not Caprice or Ella, was behind it, and that Bethanie is his pet mother. Ava tries to tell Bethanie she understands what it is like raising a problem pet or two and thinks they can help one another. She acknowledges she likes her, but if they date, Jackson's behavior will only get worse. Ava proposes to Alicia, believing she is the only woman who will marry her.

By a chance meeting at a pizzeria, Ava, Bethanie, Caprice, Ella, and Jackson dine together and have a good time, even after the food fight that the pets start with Ivyann gets them banned from the restaurant; Caprice, Ella and Jackson apologize for pranking each other and become best friends, deciding their pet parents should date.

Caprice and Ella attempt to stop the wedding by switching Alicia's blood sample with that of a rabid cat. Handcuffed by animal control and sent to the hospital for observation, Alicia is more determined than ever that the wedding goes on. Caprice and Ella then switches Alicia's chart again with a patient having surgery to enlarge his nose, believing it will make Alicia so ugly that Ava will not want to marry her. The night before the wedding, Caprice, Ella and Jackson make a wish at the town's Johnny Appleseed statue near Parkview Field that their pet parents will get together.

At the altar the next day, Alicia reveals she had last-minute plastic surgery to fix her nose. Just then, Jackson appears operating a bulldozer with the Johnny Appleseed statue, and Alicia, revealing herself as a pet hater (which makes Ava realize Caprice and Ella were telling the truth about her), gets trapped underneath. Ava tells Bethanie that she is the one she wants and suggests Jenna should propose to Alicia herself, which she does. Caprice puts Jackson's firecracker in Ella's slingshot, causing the cake to blast off and land on Alicia and Jenna. Caprice, Ella, Ava, Bethanie, and Jackson then walk off as the film comes to a close.

Cast

Production

In an assignment for Ava Zinn's Video & Sound course at Ivy Tech - Fort Wayne on April 15, 2022, it was revealed that a Caprice & Ella movie was in the works to be released on in the summer of 2023.^[1]

The film was shot on location in Indiana. The primary location is Fort Wayne.

Caprice Zinn, Ella Zinn, Ava Zinn, Tuxedo Kitty, Ragdoll Kitty, and Grey Poupon reprised their roles from the YouTube series. Ava Zinn reprised her Queen of the Willis roles of Shushu Willis and Tabby Willis although they respectively sound like Caprice and Ella. Zinn said the pet day care scene is comical.

Just hours after the casting call was announced in May 2022, Rachael Passalt was confirmed to portray the Aninal Shelter Volunteer and Karly Jameson was confirmed to be the narrator. On June 5, 2022, Justice Margowski and Dexter Manning were confirmed as the voice of Jackson Grubb and the puppets, respectively.

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