Roar

The main premise taking shape, as the American family (Tippi Hedren, her daughter Melanie Griffith, John and Jerry Marshall) of African big-cat researcher Noel Marshall (the director, Mr. Hedren and the boys’ father) have arrived at his cat-dominated house when he isn’t home, in Roar, 1981.

Quick exposition as Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and John and Jerry Marshall, the family of Noel Marshall (Hedren’s husband, also the director), a big-cat researcher in Africa, arrive unexpected, while he works with his aide Kyalo Mativo, early in Roar, 1981.