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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama
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Director:
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Mike White
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Actors:
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Regina King,
Thomas McCarthy,
Amy Schlagel,
Zoe Schlagel,
Dale Godboldo,
Inara George,
Jon Shere,
Christy Moore,
Molly Shannon,
Laura Dern,
Josh Pais,
John C. Reilly,
Peter Sarsgaard,
Liza Weil,
Audrey Wasilewski
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Duration:
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97 min.
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Rating:
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(6.2/10)129.5
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Plot Summary:
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Peggy is single, childless, in her 40s, a lonely executive assistant in a loving intermediation. Her dog Pencil is the love of her enthusiasm, and when he dies after eating some undistinguished of toxin, Peggy's flavour spins out of her management: a amicable neighbor invites her appropriate for dinner; a friendly staff member at her vet's calls with an abused dog he recommends she take up - she does, and also finds herself attracted to this fellow. She becomes a vegan, supports organism-rights causes, and embroils her kin's immature children in these concerns. Saving dogs and other animals b... ecome such a passion that her noetic salubriousness and her employ may be in liable to be. Are regaining govern and finding affection beyond her reach?
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Year of the Dog
Year of the Dog's trailer is a bald faced lie. It paints the film as a sweet, funny rom-com featuring Molly Shannon's previously unsociable Peggy emerging from her shell when her dog dies and being pursued by odd neighbour John C Reilly and nice vet Peter Sarsgaard. That would have been better than the muddle this film actually is.
It does start out funny with a good performance from Shannon and brilliant support from Reilly and from Laura Dern as the world's most neurotic parent but once Sarsgaard enters the picture and his character makes Shannon's an animal activist the film falls apart. The big problem is that Peggy becomes less likeable with each passing scene, her actions are often reprehensible and the turnabout in her character is never convincing. Worse the ...
Year of the Dog
Kevin Crust If someone took you to see A Mike White Film, your expectations might range from the iconoclastic, Chuck and Buck, to the quirkily mainstream, School of Rock. With The Good Girl, Orange County and Nacho Libre falling somewhere in between on the scale of provocativeness, White is one of the few contemporary screenwriters with a strong enough voice to persist through a variety of directors.
That said, the unfiltered White makes his directing debut with Year of the Dog, a scruffy personal comedy about a woman whose devotion to her dog leads to profound changes in her life. With pathos competing equally against the often pungent laughs for the audience's attention, it's a movie that is both unsettling and amusing, most comparable to Chuck & Buck in tone.
Moll...
Utter dog poo!
Why did I rent this? Complete waste of an hour and half. And this is coming from a dog lover. Complete drivvel.
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