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Year of the Dog

Year of the Dog

2007
Drama
1h 37m
When Peggy (Shannon) loses her best friend, a Beagle named Pencil, she emerges from her loss with a new found sense of her place in the world and what it takes to make her happy. (Paramount Vantage)
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Year of the Dog

2007
Drama
1h 37m
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Rated 25 May 2009
31
11th
There are clearly limits to Mike White's unique brand of sympathetic snark. Films he's written are about small, wounded people without ever settling on whether to damn or praise them. Dog marks his first time as a director. His mockery of the characters borders on vicious. Molly Shannon is solid enough as a woman who contends with the loss of a pet through an escalating commitment to other animals. In the end, I did believe in her character's path. I wish I felt that White did, too.
Rated 28 Apr 2007
64
28th
While it attempts to avoid some the trappings of the "quirky, hip, and independent" genre by keeping the characters plausibly eccentric and realistic, the film feels kind of unsure of itself; furthermore, the humor is very dry and the story is not always all that compelling. Nonetheless, it's pretty smart, the dialogue is sharp, and the performances are good. I thought it was fine but I probably won't watch it again.
Rated 28 Aug 2007
10
9th
It's the kind of depressing you only get from bad movies, it's not about the tragic turns our lives take that make us miserable and lonely as much as it's about the stupid neuroses we have that make people think no wonder this lunatic is single. That and it flat out fails as either a romance or a comedy.
Rated 22 Nov 2007
61
35th
Though this annoyingly genre-defying is only 97 minutes long, it feels at least double that. Despite a hilarious performance by Laura Dern and a surprisingly moving turn by Shannon, this film did not hold together as well as I had hoped.
Rated 18 Feb 2008
60
25th
Tries too hard to be an indie-film, if that makes a lick of sense. And it fails, it's just a bunch of shallow feel-good moments that want to be weird, but are just stupid.
Rated 08 Mar 2008
78
19th
If you love your pets, especially dogs, you probably will be favorably disposed toward this film, as I was. There is something wonderful and dog-like about Molly Shannon's performance, and that's a plus. But the film runs out of energy and creativity toward the end. The last 20 minutes or so was a dog's breakfast of farce, drama, and Sundancy ambiguities.
Rated 15 Jun 2008
20
20th
Molly Shannon is the only saving grace for this very uncomfortable and depressing movie. If it wasn't for her, it'd be a certain ZERO. If you like this actress, and want to spend a couple hours squirming uncomfortably, waiting for the main character to make increasingly worse choices in life, here you go.
Rated 24 Apr 2009
80
70th
"It's a testament to writer/director Mike White's talents that Peggy's miseries are shown as humorously tragic, but also simply, plainly painful."
Rated 06 Jun 2010
20
15th
From what I remember, this was excruciating and boring. I don't believe I made it through the whole thing.
Rated 21 Oct 2010
25
61st
"Minor but moving, it's a story about, and for, outsiders...and PETA members as well." - Nick Schager
Rated 07 Mar 2011
68
31st
I don't think this film really knew what it was, it was enjoyable though and the reactions Peggy got when she went vegan were spot on, very realistic.
Rated 21 Dec 2011
74
42nd
I enjoyed this movie, the ending actually surprised me. Molly Shannon does a great job in the lead role. This movie isn't perfect but overall I would recommend it.
Rated 30 Nov 2012
70
61st
It's the most thorough portrait yet of the world according to White.
Rated 17 Aug 2014
70
41st
I really liked the first half (the scenes concerning Pencil's death are incredibly moving), but I thought it went off in some kinda bizarre, preachy directions that didn't really work (and that's coming from an animal lover) and that White covered much better a few years later with Enlightened. In fact much of this movie's themes on activism seem kind of redundant to that show, including the almost identical ending. I still liked it, but plot-wise it's a bit hard to swallow.
Rated 23 Jan 2015
55
37th
Entertainment: 3.5/4. Spirit: 1/3. Sustainability: 1/3.
Rated 30 Oct 2019
45
16th
Köpeği ölen yalnız Peggy, yalnız kalınca yan komşu John C.Reilly ile buluşur. Daha sonra köpek bakıcısı bir gençle tanışır. Hayvan sevgisi üzerine iyi 1 film. Ama çok sıkıcı. Molly Shannon çok iyi. Ama yarıda kapatıp bırakacağımız filmlerden. Filmin sonunda aklını kaybedip 15 köpek alan Peggy, en son kendini hayır kurumlarına bırakıyor. Peşinde köpek olurum.

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