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This is for those of you who wish to see a new film of Oliver and Company.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters except for Elizabeth, Kenneth Jameson, and Jenny's boyfriend.
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Synopsis: Shortly after New Year celebrations, Jenny’s father’s company goes bankrupt due to the workings of Kenneth Jameson, a man who has been plotting to ruin the Foxworth name for years. As court proceedings drag on between Jenny’s parents and Jameson and all of New York City is captivated, attention drifts away from the pets, which allows Jameson to hire a professional to kidnap the Gang and hold them for ransom, the payoff to be given to Jameson. Little do our villains know, that Oliver, Jenny’s love-desiring teenaged cat, and Jameson’s female cat, Elizabeth, will meet each other.
Scene 1: Doomsday Resolutions
The opening music plays over sounds of celebration as the camera pears over an enormous crowd in Times Square. It is December 31, 1999 and Jenny, her boyfriend, Winston, her parents, Oliver, Georgette, Fagin, Dodger, Francis, Einstein, Tito, and Rita are all part of the celebration for a new millennium. Fagin has considerably picked up the pieces of his life since we last saw him as he is now working for Jenny’s father and is now able to afford licenses and proper grooming for the Old Gang. Dodger is notably clean and continues to shoot somewhat flirtatious glances towards Georgette as well as Rita, perhaps simply to make them notice his self-thought handsome nature. Rita, on the other hand, appears to be the most beautiful dog (competing with Georgette, of course) in all of the crowded Times Square. Her coat has an astonishing lust to it and her face is evenly groomed to accent her facial features. Tito, however, still looks the same since the last we saw as do Einstein and Francis, even though they do appear a bit cleaner. Georgette, even though she is beginning to get on in years, has never looked better before. Oliver, having grown very significantly, is now on the cusp of adulthood, but is continuing to learn about the world around him. Jenny, now proceeding with her senior year in high school, has grown up to be very beautiful.
Over all the noise of the festivities, Jenny and her boyfriend, Harold, manage to have a conversation. Georgette, whose leash is being held onto by Jenny, lifts up her ear to eavesdrop. After the exchange becomes very mushy and romantic, Georgette rolls her eyes and lowers her ear. Oliver appears to have a very somber look on his face for some unknown reason, to which Dodger takes notice.
Dodger: Hey, Kid, you all right?
Oliver: Yeah, Dodger, I’m okay. It’s exciting isn’t it?
Dodger: Yeah, I ain’t never been to one of these before. Fagin has ‘em on all the time, but I ain’t never been to one.
Oliver: New Years, you mean?
Dodger: Yeah!
Georgette (snobbishly): I find it hard to believe that you, of all people, have never been to one of these momentous occasions in history.
Dodger: Hey, pretty lady, don’t forget, when that there ball drops, somebody’s gotta get smooched. (He smacks his lips at Georgette)
Georgette: I’d rather drink out of the toilet.
Francis: Then, what, may I ask, would be the problem?
Tito: All right!!!! Frankie man!!!! (He high-fives Francis and Francis high-fives back)
Georgette: It’s none of your business, fatso.
Francis: Well, Ms. Georgette, I saw it fit to intervene in the conversation. In, fact, my New Years Resolution is to stop doing just that.
Georgette (under her breath): Maybe it should’ve been to lose some weight.
Francis: Well, perhaps yours should have been to stop being a material girl.
Georgette: For your information, it’s to win the Westminster Dog Show.
Oliver (after a short pause): Georgette, you just won that and you’ve won it for the past six years.
Georgette: Well, I want to win it again! (In an I-can’t believe-I-have-to-ask-it tone) What’s yours, anyway?
Dodger: Mine? Nah, you don’t wanna hear it!
All except Georgette: Aw, come on, tell us! (They all go into indistinct requests)
Tito (delayed with the rest): Please?
Dodger (in an amused tone): Ehhhhhh, (quickly) all right. If ya gotta know, it’s to spread my coolness and Dodgeracity all around New York.
All: Oh, please! (They go into indistinct sayings again)
Dodger: Naw, for real! By this time next year, ev’rybody in New York’ll be a Dodger fan. (He looks to be thinking of a grandiose world, but snaps out of the fantasy and lets out a sigh.) All right, what’s yours, Einstein?
Einstein: Mine?
Dodger: That’s your name, init?
Einstein: Well, mine is to achieve world peace.
Francis (after a somewhat elongated pause): And how do you plan to do that?
Einstein: Oh, uh, I don’t know. I didn’t get up to that part yet.
Dodger: Okay. What’s yours, Tito?
Tito: I wanna spread my dance skills all around this here city!!! (He goes into a seizure of bad dance moves.)
Georgette: Right, (sarcastically flirtatious) Alonzo.
Tito: Now, babe, what did I tell you about callin’ me that name?
Georgette: Oh, I know what you told me, I just like to annoy you.
Oliver: Why don’t you listen to him, Georgie?
Georgette: Touché, (after a brief pause) Ollie. (She smirks)
Dodger (discreetly to Oliver): There’s “The Chick” for ya, kid. (To Rita) So, Rita Baby, what’s yours?
Rita: Me? Oh, I don’t have one.
Francis: Why not?
Rita (incredulously): Guys, don’t you remember? The world’s gonna end at midnight!
Georgette: Nonsense.
Francis: Now, where did you hear that rubbish?
Einstein: That stuff Fagin watches. They say it’s called Y2uhhhh—
Francis (with unnecessary and insulting annunciation on each syllable): Y2K?
Einstein: Yeah!
Georgette: You ignoramuses believe that?
Tito: Iga-raindown-wha???
Georgette: Don’t hurt yourself.
Rita: No, really! At midnight, everything’s gonna shut down and you know who the first one’s to go are?
Georgette: The imbeciles like you?
Rita: No, the spoiled dog show queens.
Georgette: How mature.
Francis: Really.
Oliver: Is the world really gonna end at midnight?
Dodger (chuckling): Nah, kid. They’re just jokin’.
Rita (flirtatiously): But hey, Dodger, you know, if we are gonna die, I’d wanna be with you when we do.
Dodger: Really, Rita-girl, huh? It looks like you was a Dodger fan all along.
Tito: Hey. Hey, hey, careful, Dodger man!!! She’s pulled that on me before.
Dodger: Hey, cool it, Tito, okay? (To Oliver) Anyway, Kid, what’s your revolution?
Georgette: Resolution, you idiot.
Dodger (evidently enjoying the annoyance Georgette is going through): Yeah, whatever. Well, what is it, kid?
Oliver: Umm, it’s—n-never mind. It’s stupid.
Rita: Come on, hon, tell us.
Oliver: I don’t really want to.
Dodger: Okay, Kid.
(Oliver turns to Georgette, who gives him a curt nod)
Oliver: Okay, I’ll tell you what it is, but you guys have to promise not to laugh at it okay?
Rita: Why would we laugh at it?
Oliver: I don’t know. Maybe you’ll think it is stupid.
Dodger (in an understanding manner): Kid, we promise, we won’t make funna ya.
Rita: A resolution should be shared with everybody so everybody knows when you’ve accomplished it.
Oliver: All right. My resolution is to find someone that I can spend time with—a girl… that’s nice and…that I can love. I don’t know. I think I’m just lonely.
(Close-up of Dodger and Rita who exchange sentimental smiles.)
Dodger: Don’t worry, Kid, when the time’s right, you’re gonna find the girl o’ your dreams. Just hang in there, bud.
Rita: And, Oliver, when you find that special someone, it’s like no other feeling In the world.
(Dodger and Rita grin at each other briefly.)
Georgette (as though it slightly pains her to be talking in this sweet tone): And, Oliver, I wouldn’t know, but I’d say that it takes (brief pause) time for these things to happen and you have plenty of time for it to happen to you, so you shouldn’t give up.
Oliver (to everybody): Thanks guys. (cautiously) So, you don’t think it’s dumb or anything?
Dodger: No, Kid, it ain’t dumb even a little bit.
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And yeah...I would love a (good!) O&C sequel... 
