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by Sunsilver on 29 September 2012 - 04:09
Dear God, if you are a dog lover, do NOT watch this movie alone! And make sure you have plenty of tissues on hand! I wept buckets! 
(And reading the reviews on IMDB, so did just about everyone who saw it, even the men!)
It's the story of an Akita pup that is adopted by a university professor (played by Richard Gere.)
The professor dies of a heart attack, but the dog can't forget him. Every day he goes down to the train station to wait for him, just as he did when his master was alive. He contuinues this routine until he succumbs to old age.
It is based on the true story of a dog in Japan, which did the same thing.
Now, my one beef: I know this is fiction, and in the real life case, the dog was unable to connect with his dead owner's famiily. But I want to rip the man's wife and daughter a new one for essentially abandoning the dog, and letting it fend for itself for the rest of its life!
What a HORRIBLE way to repay such wonderful loyalty!
(And reading the reviews on IMDB, so did just about everyone who saw it, even the men!)It's the story of an Akita pup that is adopted by a university professor (played by Richard Gere.)
The professor dies of a heart attack, but the dog can't forget him. Every day he goes down to the train station to wait for him, just as he did when his master was alive. He contuinues this routine until he succumbs to old age.
It is based on the true story of a dog in Japan, which did the same thing.
Now, my one beef: I know this is fiction, and in the real life case, the dog was unable to connect with his dead owner's famiily. But I want to rip the man's wife and daughter a new one for essentially abandoning the dog, and letting it fend for itself for the rest of its life!
What a HORRIBLE way to repay such wonderful loyalty!
by vonissk on 29 September 2012 - 05:09
I saw that on Hallmark last year and it was a tearjerker. Didn't the wife try to take him home and he would never stay there? Or was he was so unhappy in the yard that she just turned him out? I think that was it. The end was real sad where he was so old and laying in the snow at the train station. I mean I know he was an Akita and had a thick coat but still I felt so sorry for him and thought how cold he must be.............The other thing was you never saw him eating anything but that vendor's hot dogs and we know there is no way he could have lived on one hot dog a day..............
by Hutchins on 29 September 2012 - 15:09
Another good movie I recently watched was RED DOG. Kinda slow for the first 10-15 minutes, but worth sitting through it. This movie is really an eye opener. Really makes you sit and think. I strongly recommend it.
by vonissk on 29 September 2012 - 16:09
Hitchins was that on tv or can you rent it or what?
by Sunsilver on 01 October 2012 - 13:10
You can probably rent it. Hallmark has done some very good movies, and I sometimes buy the CDs directly from Hallmark's website.
After the professor died, the wife sold the house, and the daughter took the dog. The dog wasn't very happy, and one day he escaped and followed the train tracks back to the railway station.
The daughter's husband found him there, and brought him home. The daughter realized he was still grieving and just turned him loose. This is the part that gets me: NO ONE in the family followed up on him after that! His friends at the railway station must have fed him to keep him from starving to death, but other than that, he was on his own. The wife did find him there when she made a trip back to visit her husband's grave, many years later, but by this point, I was so mad, I shouted at her, "You heartless BITCH!!"
How could you just turn a dog like that out and not follow up on it to see what was happening with it?
I know, I know, it's just a MOVIE!
After the professor died, the wife sold the house, and the daughter took the dog. The dog wasn't very happy, and one day he escaped and followed the train tracks back to the railway station.
The daughter's husband found him there, and brought him home. The daughter realized he was still grieving and just turned him loose. This is the part that gets me: NO ONE in the family followed up on him after that! His friends at the railway station must have fed him to keep him from starving to death, but other than that, he was on his own. The wife did find him there when she made a trip back to visit her husband's grave, many years later, but by this point, I was so mad, I shouted at her, "You heartless BITCH!!"
How could you just turn a dog like that out and not follow up on it to see what was happening with it?
I know, I know, it's just a MOVIE!
by LadyFrost on 01 October 2012 - 18:10
based on a true story.....
by Sunsilver on 01 October 2012 - 22:10
In the true story, I believe the owner was single, and any family he had lived at a distance, and didn't know about the dog.
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