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- 2016
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- IFC Films
- 1 h 28 m
- 2016
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 28 m
Summary Wiener-Dog is a dark, starkly funny story of a single dog and the many different people she touches over her short lifetime. Man’s best friend starts out teaching a young boy some contorted life lessons before being taken in by a compassionate vet tech named Dawn Wiener. Dawn reunites with someone from her past and sets off on a road tri...
Directed By: Todd Solondz
Written By: Todd Solondz
- 2016
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 28 m
- 2016
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 28 m
Wiener-Dog
66
5.7
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Summary Wiener-Dog is a dark, starkly funny story of a single dog and the many different people she touches over her short lifetime. Man’s best friend starts out teaching a young boy some contorted life lessons before being taken in by a compassionate vet tech named Dawn Wiener. Dawn reunites with someone from her past and sets off on a road tri...
Directed By: Todd Solondz
Written By: Todd Solondz
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 35 Critic Reviews
66
66% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
31% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 35 Critic Reviews
66
66% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
31% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Bizarre and challenging when it's not outright goofy, Wiener-Dog never feels remotely compromised. Somehow hilarious and gloomy at the same time, it represents a big middle finger to anyone who wishes Solondz would lighten up.
With Wiener-Dog, Solondz is perhaps at his most evidently candid, showing all the different, damaged people that can enter and exit one’s life, and what our mutually shared, inevitable destination will be.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 41 User Ratings
5.7
46% Positive
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
32% Mixed
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
22% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 41 User Ratings
5.7
46% Positive
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
32% Mixed
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
22% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
Todd Solondz has always been an expert for odd-looking and unorthodox films. And five years after his last film, he has made a comeback with Wiener-Dog. It is composed of four different stories connected by one dog and stars Ellen Burstyn, Greta Gerwig, Keaton Nigel Cooke and Danny DeVito.
The impressive style is established gorgeously which is incorporated with nice musical score and uplifting cinematography. The scenes are also filled with such realism and feels like a true-to-life situation of everyday living. This film does a good work in not being afraid to be uncanny nevertheless of a simple premise. Although some viewers might think this is an uninteresting and weird dramedy, you've got to understand the concept of it in order to figure out what message it is trying to evoke.
VERDICT: Wiener-Dog is a passionate comeback for Solondz, who masterfully crafts a peculiar yet realistic black comedy.
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It's fair to say that Todd Solondz movies are not for everyone. Wiener Dog is Solondz 'lite' compared to his other more misanthropic films however, and there are even moments of tenderness in the four stories that make up the whole. It's still no picnic though and the ending will certainly divide audiences.
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Overly sensitive pet owners, however, would be advised to take a walk.
Solondz’s latest is morose and jaundiced and, although uneven, a relentlessly clever little film.
There will be movie-goers who enjoy the misery of it all. They may even laugh. I couldn't.
The joke is that Wiener-Dog is about as non-epic as can be, but there’s also a sleight of hand, with the dazzle of the images distracting us from the fact that the movie has run out of plot. Meanwhile, the depths of doghood remain unplumbed.
In Wiener-Dog, Solondz just keeps telling the same dark joke over and over again—and it just keeps getting less and less funny. It’s a dog.
A dog's lifetime journey with the different owners.
I am an animal lover, but there's nothing bad I found on it. It was just a film and they did not even harm the dogs that used for, but those, particularly final scene was a graphic. Anyway, one thing is for sure that this is not for softhearted people. Because some of the contents were unpleasant to watch, but in the real world these things happen everyday, everywhere and nobody doing nothing to stop that. So you can't just blame this film for that to portraying the facts. In a recent film, someone was attacked by a bear and later it was killed, but this is not that kind of bad impression giving film for the animal lovers.
I haven't seen the 'Welcome to the Dollhouse', but it is a spin-off of that. Written and directed by a same filmmaker. A comedy drama with multiple layers, but all of them follows a single dog, the journey what a dog makes in his lifetime like with the different owners how its fate hangs. So you aren't going to enjoy all the tale, I particularly liked first one and so do the many others. The second half was not up to its counterpart. It started off well and if it had ended the same way, it would have been considered a good one. But it lost the track during the middle, so now it is an average, maybe just below that.
Don't think it is a dog film like those you loved. The dog is the part of the film, but its contributions were rare. It is just a film and enjoy it as one, other than that it is useless to complain on the depiction. It is R rated, and that tells it might not suitable for families. But it carried a very good message on how the dogs were treated in the different classes, in the different society of people and family. For that alone, it is worth a watch, but still lacks appealness. So I won't suggest it, but it is not bad either like many people claiming. All I would say is choose it carefully, don't believe what some were whining about.
5/10
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It's about as endearing as an acid-spewing porcupine with irritable bowel syndrome, but as far as style is concerned there's almost something respectable about how unabashedly twisted Todd Solondz's newest flick is. "Wiener-Dog" may be a little too off-kilter for some, and way too rough in its landing for most, but - again - a worthy effort in showcasing Solondz's unique brand of humor. Not really my kind of film, but for all you dark humor die-hards out there, it's definitely worth a look.
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Let me start by saying we're going on our 2nd doxie and this film captures NONE of the charm or personality of the breed (the one in the movie was over-trained and practically comatose). By the same token, this dark comedy is only dark. There are NO funny moments (with the possible exception of a musical "intermission"). The narrative follows the unhappy lives of 4 people, including Danny DeVito & Ellen Burstyn. Only the 1st story even features the dog …in the other 3, it's just an ornament. Director Todd Solondz nailed this type of somewhat sick humor in "Happiness," but this time, the plights of the people aren't interesting and the writing is flat. The final scene of the dog getting run over is especially disturbing and not necessary.
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I suppose this film might be enjoyable for some people, but for the life of me I can't see anything endearing in it. It is dark and depressing, but perhaps funny for those who like to witness the sufferings of others. I can't recommend it to anyone... especially for dog lovers. Spare yourself the loss of your time.
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Production Company
Annapurna Pictures,
Killer Films
Release Date Jun 24, 2016
Duration 1 h 28 m
Rating R
Website
http://www.wienerdogmovie.com/
Awards
Deauville Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)
• 1 Nomination
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
