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2017 film past Lasse Hallström

A Domestic dog's Purpose
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Lasse Hallström
Screenplay by
  • Due west. Bruce Cameron
  • Cathryn Michon
  • Audrey Wells
  • Maya Forbes
  • Wally Wolodarsky
Based on A Dog's Purpose
by W. Bruce Cameron
Produced past Gavin Polone
Starring
  • Britt Robertson
  • KJ Apa
  • John Ortiz
  • Dennis Quaid
  • Josh Gad
Cinematography Terry Stacey
Edited by Robert Leighton
Music by Rachel Portman[one]

Production
companies
  • Amblin Entertainment[ii]
  • Reliance Entertainment[2]
  • Walden Media[2]
  • Pariah Entertainment Grouping[ii]
Distributed past Universal Pictures[ii] (Worldwide)
Mister Smith Entertainment[3] (EMEA)

Release appointment
  • January 27, 2017 (2017-01-27)

Running time

 100 minutes[ii]
Country United States
Linguistic communication English
Budget $22 million[four]
Box office $205 million[iv]

A Dog'southward Purpose is a 2022 American comedy-drama gamble pic directed by Lasse Hallström and written by W. Bruce Cameron, Cathryn Michon, Audrey Wells, Maya Forbes, and Wally Wolodarsky, based on the 2010 novel of the same proper name past West. Bruce Cameron. The film stars Britt Robertson, KJ Apa, Juliet Rylance, John Ortiz, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Peggy Lipton, Dennis Quaid, and Josh Gad.

The film is a co-production between Amblin Entertainment, Reliance Amusement, Walden Media, and Pariah Amusement Group.[v] [6] Information technology was released by Universal Pictures on January 27, 2017, and grossed $205 million worldwide. It was Peggy Lipton'due south terminal moving-picture show role before her death in 2019.

A sequel, titled A Dog's Journey, was released on May 17, 2019.[7]

Plot [edit]

In the 1950s, a feral puppy wonders about life'south true purpose. Weeks later, he is defenseless by dog catchers, whisked abroad to the pound, and euthanized.

The dog is reborn every bit a Red Retriever in 1961. Leaving his cage at a puppy manufactory, he is taken by two garbage men who plan to sell him. Left locked inside their option-upwards truck, he begins to die of heatstroke, but is rescued past a kindhearted female parent and her eight-year-old son Ethan Montgomery. They break the truck'south window and bring him habitation, naming him Bailey. Bailey and Ethan bond apace, especially over the summer at Ethan'southward grandparents' subcontract, and Bailey decides Ethan alone is his purpose. Years pass, and afterwards several attempts at advancing in his job fail, Ethan's father has become an alcoholic. In 1969, Ethan meets Hannah at a fair with Bailey, and they soon begin dating. They spend their summer together, happily though senior twelvemonth. They program to go to the same college, Ethan getting a football scholarship and Hannah with an academic one. At home one night, Ethan's drunken male parent becomes abusive towards his mother and him. Ethan orders him to leave and never return. Later in 1971 at a football game game watched by scouts, Ethan is offered a total scholarship to Michigan Country. That night, his vindictive classmate Todd throws a lit firecracker into Ethan'south house, causing a house burn. Bailey alerts Ethan, who saves his female parent out through an upstairs window. Ethan lowers her, then Bailey. All the same, he loses his rope and must jump, fracturing his leg and ending his athletic scholarship. Bailey attacks Todd, who is arrested past the police when firecrackers fall out of his pocket. Now, Ethan must go to an agronomical schoolhouse, where he will learn to take over the farm. Depressed, Ethan breaks up with Hannah before leaving for college, while Bailey stays with Ethan'southward grandparents. Bailey ages and Ethan comes to say bye.

Bailey is reborn every bit a female German Shepherd puppy, growing into a police domestic dog named Ellie, in the late 1970s/early 1980s, while fully retaining memories of her by lives. Ellie is partnered with lonely, widowed officeholder Carlos Ruiz, of the Chicago Police Department and works hard at "seeking" and "finding", now seeing the job as life'south purpose. They class a close bond, ending subsequently Ellie saves a girl, kidnapped by her mother's ex-boyfriend, from drowning and is then fatally shot by the kidnapper while protecting Carlos.

Reborn in the mid-1980s equally a male person Corgi, Bailey is adopted by Atlanta higher student Maya, who names him Tino. Lonely, he tries to find her happiness. She meets Al, a classmate, after Tino falls for Al's canis familiaris, a female Landseer named Roxy. They marry, having iii children. Tino is heartbroken when one day Roxy does non return from the vet. As a at present elderly Tino dies, he thank you Maya for giving him one of his best lives.

Bailey reincarnates again, this time as a St. Bernard/Australian Shepherd mix puppy in 2014.[8] At get-go adopted past Wendi, he is named Waffles. Unfortunately, Wendi'due south married man neglects him, refuses to let her keep him inside, and after several years, abandons him. Waffles searches for a new life, gradually making his mode back where he spent summers as Bailey. He joyfully reunites with his old master Ethan, now in his 60s, lonely on his grandparents' old subcontract, at present his. Non recognizing him, Ethan takes him to the local beast shelter, but later reclaims him, naming him Buddy. Finally sensing that he has finally establish his true purpose, he reunites Ethan with a widowed Hannah, and they get married. Buddy shows Ethan that he is his beloved childhood canis familiaris, past performing tricks and responding to phrases that were known only to the two of them many years dorsum, such as "boss canis familiaris". Ethan finds Bailey's collar, now old and rusty, and places it back on Bailey'south neck, and they resume playing exactly the manner they did and so long ago. Bailey narrates that life is about having fun, saving others, finding someone to exist with, not getting upset over the past or the future, and living for today.

Cast [edit]

  • Josh Gad as the voice of Bailey, Ellie, Tino and Buddy
  • Dennis Quaid as Ethan Montgomery
    • KJ Apa as teenaged Ethan Montgomery
    • Bryce Gheisar as eight-yr-old Ethan Montgomery
  • Juliet Rylance every bit Elizabeth Montgomery, Ethan's mother
  • Peggy Lipton as Hannah
    • Britt Robertson as teenaged Hannah
  • John Ortiz as Carlos Ruiz
  • Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Maya
  • Pooch Hall as Al
  • Luke Kirby equally Jim Montgomery, Ethan's father
  • Michael Bofshever as Bill, Ethan's grandfather
  • Gabrielle Rose as Fran, Ethan's grandmother
  • Logan Miller as Todd, the vindictive classmate

Production [edit]

In 2015, DreamWorks acquired the film rights for Cameron's novel.[9] On May 8, 2015, information technology was announced Lasse Hallström would direct the film.[ten] On Baronial 5, 2015, Britt Robertson and Dennis Quaid joined the cast.[11] On September 18, 2015, Pooch Hall was bandage in the moving picture.[12] On October 15, 2015, Bradley Cooper joined the cast to play Bailey'due south inner vocalisation,[13] but the role was eventually performed by Josh Gad.[14] Principal photography began on August 17, 2015.[fifteen] During production, controversy ensued over treatment of a canis familiaris during filming.[16]

Release [edit]

In December 2015, the film switched from a DreamWorks Pictures release to nether the Amblin Entertainment banner every bit per Amblin Partners' newly enacted branded strategy.[17] The flick was released by Universal Pictures on January 27, 2017.[18] Universal also distributed information technology overseas, except for countries where Mister Smith Amusement handled international sales.[3]

Reception [edit]

Box office [edit]

A Dog'south Purpose has grossed $64.v 1000000 in the United States and Canada and $140.five one thousand thousand in other territories for a worldwide gross of $205 million, against a product upkeep of $22 1000000.[4]

In North America, it was released alongside Resident Evil: The Final Chapter and Gold, and was projected to gross $18–22 million from three,050 theaters in its opening weekend, slightly lower than initial $27 million tracking had the film debuting to before boycotts against the moving-picture show were called for.[xix] It made $466,000 from Thursday-night previews and $5.3 1000000 on its beginning day. It ended upward debuting to $18.2 million, finishing second at the box office backside the second weekend of Universal'due south own Split.[20] The film dropped twoscore.6% in its second weekend, grossing $10.eight million and finishing tertiary at the box role.[21]

Critical response [edit]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 35% based on reviews from 142 critics, with an average rating of 4.viii/10. The site'due south critics consensus reads, "A Dog's Purpose offers an awkward blend of sugary sentiment and canine suffering that tugs at animal-loving audiences' heartstrings with shameless abandon."[22] On Metacritic, the moving picture has a weighted average score of 43 out of 100 based on 32 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[23] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an boilerplate grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[24]

Andrew Barker of Variety wrote: "Viewed in a vacuum, it's hard to fault the motion picture'south earnestness; Hallström's canine cinema pedigree (which includes the superior Hachi: A Canis familiaris's Tale) shows through; and Rachel Portman's score is understandably sentimental without going completely saccharine."[25] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "While the human performers are more than than adequate, at that place'south no uncertainty that the canine stars carry the day. Their utter irresistibility helps a long way in terms of getting past the corny plot machinations of A Domestic dog's Purpose."[ii]

Domicile media [edit]

A Dog's Purpose was released on digital Hard disk drive on April 18, 2017, and was followed by a release on Blu-ray and DVD on May ii, 2017, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.[26] [27] The moving picture topped the home-video sales nautical chart for the week catastrophe on May 7, 2017.[28]

Controversy [edit]

On January eighteen, 2017, a video surfaced on TMZ showing footage taken from the set of the movie, which shows a male High german Shepherd named Hercules being dragged and dipped into rushing h2o while visibly resisting.[29] Later on a cut in the video, the adjacent prune shows the dog beingness submerged in the water at the other end of the tank while a voice on set can be heard shouting "CUT IT!", and diverse people are then seen rushing towards the dog.[thirty] The American Humane Association, which ensures that animals are not harmed in entertainment productions, announced that its representative on set had been suspended over the incident, and that the incident was nether further investigation.[31] [32] PETA called for a boycott of the film.[33] Actor Josh Gad, who voices the dog in the movie and was non on set during the making of the motion picture, said he was "shaken and sad to see any creature put in a state of affairs against its will."[34] Director Lasse Hallström said via Twitter that he "did non witness" the actions in the video, and was "very disturbed" past the footage.[35] Due to the release of the video, Universal Pictures cancelled the film's scheduled January nineteen Los Angeles premiere.[36]

Amblin Entertainment released a statement in regards to the incident, saying, "on the day of the shoot, Hercules did not want to perform the stunt portrayed on the tape, and then the Amblin production squad did non proceed with filming that shot," and "Hercules is happy and healthy."[37] On February 4, 2017, the American Humane Association reported that an contained third-party fauna-cruelty expert had concluded that safety measures on the gear up of the picture show were in identify and the video had been deliberately edited to mislead the public.[38]

Sequel [edit]

On June 21, 2017, CEO of Amblin Entertainment Michael Wright appear that a sequel was in development.[39] On August 26, 2018, Universal began production on the sequel, which is directed past Gail Mancuso, and was released on May 17, 2019.[7] In addition to Quaid and Gad reprising their roles, the cast also includes Marg Helgenberger, (replacing Peggy Lipton, who had become seriously ill), Betty Gilpin, Kathryn Prescott, and Henry Lau.[40] The trailer for the sequel, titled A Domestic dog's Journey, was released in January 2019.[41]

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External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • A Dog's Purpose at IMDb

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