![]() In fact, Ulysses can even use her mom’s old typewriter, which she bought so she could get into the mood to write her next book, a romance novel set in the 1920s.įlora’s emotional connection with Ulysses starts giving her a new sense of hope. She soon finds out that Ulysses can understand her, though he can’t talk like a human. To get away from the commotion inside the diner, Ulysses makes an impossible leap.īack home, Flora thinks Ulysses somehow has gained superpowers. He also scares the waitress by jumping on her head. Scared and frantic, Ulysses wrecks the diner, including the large donut sign out front. A cat fancier, the waitress tries to look at the cat, but she startles Ulysses, and he goes nuts. At the restaurant, however, the waitress thinks Flora has a cat in her backpack. Her father comes by to visit Flora, and they go to a donut diner to eat breakfast. She takes it home to her bedroom, where she hides it from her mother. The squirrel appears to have stopped breathing, so Flora gives it CPR and the squirrel miraculously revives.įlora names the creature Ulysses, after the vacuum cleaner’s artificial intelligence program. ![]() The vacuum cleaner sweeps up the little fellow, but Flora and the neighbor manage to cut off the sweeper’s power and retrieve the unconscious squirrel from the sweeper’s canister. The sweeper then hits a tree, knocking a squirrel to the ground, where it gets hit in the head by the nut it was carrying. Flora and the neighbor try to trap the sweeper, but it keeps escaping. One day, the neighbor’s artificial intelligence vacuum sweeper goes bonkers and starts sweeping the grass outside. All superheroes need to find their purpose, she says. All this has turned Flora into a cynical little girl, though she still believes in superheroes, like the ones her father creates. With her father out of the house, Flora’s mother has lost her romantic muse and has developed a severe case of writer’s block. So, her parents have decided to separate and are thinking about a divorce. Her father, George, has written some comic books, but he can’t find a publisher and has lost all hope. Her mother, Phyllis, is a successful romance novelist. Narrated by Flora, the 10-year-old girl, the movie opens with Flora explaining her family’s situation. FLORA & ULYSSES is cute, touching and funny, with positive messages about hope and family, but the movie contains references to “the Universe,” some slapstick comedy and lying. FLORA & ULYSSES is a family comedy streaming on Disney+ about a cynical 10-year-old girl who befriends a little squirrel with superpowers and learns about the importance of hope while they dodge an animal control officer who thinks the squirrel has rabies.
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