Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Australian Movie Review: ***^Red Dog (2011)

 A dog story and a love story are always the best kind of story.  The dog in a way chose the love interest.  The dog has chosen the bus driver, John (Josh Lucas) for his master.  The dog then allows Nancy (Rachael Taylor) to sit in the front seat. beside him.  This starts a relationship which eventually leads to an engagement.  This movie is set in the outback and a mine by the ocean.  The mine has attracted and assorted range of characters.  They all seem affected by the dog, one did not suicide, one took him to the vet regularly to try and ask the vet for a date, others just like the way he listens.  Everything is good until the master, hits a kangaroo on his motor bike which causes him to crash and he dies.  The dod is then without a master, so he begins to roam the outback looking for his master, until he finally ives up and returns home to die.  The town builds a statue to honor him.  This is based on a true story.

It is a fun movie, with a tragedy, but the town and Nancy seem to recover from the tragic death.

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