In 101 Dalmatians Anita and Roger, a young couple, have two Dalmatians named Perdita and Pongo. Anita’s boss Cruella De Vil kidnaps Perdita and Pongo puppies to make a fur coat out of them. Perdita and Pongo set out to rescue their children from their fearsome captors Jasper and Horace, who work for Cruella De Vil. With the help of the animal kingdom Pongo and Perdita are able to save their offspring comprising of ninety-nine Dalmatian puppies.
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Don’t watch A Dog of Flanders unless you have got an adequate supply of tissue paper. Or a very large and absorbent handkerchief. This movie, about the life of an orphan, from toddler to teen, is full of heart-breaking scenes.
The dog plays a pivotal role in the story. The ending is tricky. First I wept with unbridled tears then I wept with tears of joy. Why? Watch it to find out. Don’t forget the tissues.
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Dogs are to balls as ducks are to water. They go together very well. In Air Bud, Buddy the Dog worked magic with a basketball. Along the way, Buddy also helped his young master gets out of a depression caused by the death of his father.
Buddy played a bitingly decisive role, too, in a custody case involving his former owner. All in a day’s work for a dog. A dog like Buddy, of course.
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Buddy partnered with Molly to sire five Air Buddies, four males and one female. All five have different characteristics. When it was time for the little ones to go to different homes of their own, they decided to run away.
And that started the movie running all over the place, including through a pig sty and a winery. In the end, they each went to their new homes. Lots and lots of canine capers in this movie.
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A casino-owning dog was killed by his rival but managed to get back to earth to take revenge. With the help of an orphan girl. And, in the end, went to paradise because All Dogs go to Heaven.
Which was what this movie was all about. Using a cartoon format to present some universal values about life. Simple things like “Virtue is it’s own reward”. And, of course, “You can’t keep a good dog down” just like the way it was sung in the movie.
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Bailey, the Golden Retriever, was given a golden handshake by his dear recently departed owner, Constance Pennington, in the movie Bailey’s Billion $. A handshake to the tune of billions. Of dollars. Not exactly what Caspar, her nephew, and Dolores, his wife, would have envisaged even in their worst nightmares. So they had to find a way to undo her will, so to say. Did they succeed? Not if Bailey and his friends, both two-legged and four-legged, could help it.
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No, this movie was not sponsored by the Winn-Dixie supermarket. It was not even about the supermarket. Because of Winn-Dixie was about a lonely little girl who adopted an errant dog and named it, on the spur of the moment, when her eyes alighted on the sign-board of the supermarket she was in at that time.
As the movie progressed, it looked more like the dog had adopted the little girl instead. How so? Watch the movie to find out. Don’t forget to bring some tissues, too. Just in case.
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Beethoven is a movie about a big dog with big, sloppy, generous dollops of fun and frolic. Beethoven, the Saint Bernard, came, was seen by and conquered the Newton family.
Mom and kids were easy. Dad took just a little bit longer. Let’s face it. Saint Bernards are not the easiest dogs to resist. Think of a friendly elephant with a furry coat. Be prepared to be bowled over when you watch this movie.
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