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  • 2012
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2012
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 43 m

Summary On a wintry day, Beth saves a bedraggled lost dog from the side of the freeway. Struggling with her distracted, self-involved husband Joseph and an empty nest at home, Beth forms a special bond with the rescued animal. When Joseph loses the dog after a wedding at their vacation home in the Rockies, the distraught Beth enlists the help of...

Directed By: Lawrence Kasdan

Written By: Meg Kasdan, Lawrence Kasdan

  • 2012
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2012
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 43 m

Darling Companion

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 31 Critic Reviews
41
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 10 User Ratings
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Summary On a wintry day, Beth saves a bedraggled lost dog from the side of the freeway. Struggling with her distracted, self-involved husband Joseph and an empty nest at home, Beth forms a special bond with the rescued animal. When Joseph loses the dog after a wedding at their vacation home in the Rockies, the distraught Beth enlists the help of...

Directed By: Lawrence Kasdan

Written By: Meg Kasdan, Lawrence Kasdan

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 31 Critic Reviews
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16% Positive
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58% Mixed
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26% Negative
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75
May 3, 2012
You don't have to love dogs to enjoy Darling Companion, but it couldn't hurt.
By Connie Ogle FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 1, 2012
Some summer movies are big, woofing mastiffs. (Think "Battleship.") Others are naughty, nipping lapdogs. ("The Dictator.") Here, what we get is a calm, quiet basset hound. And, for the most part, it's a good dog.
By Mike Scott FULL REVIEW

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50
Apr 19, 2012
If you found "Benji the Hunted" unbearably intense or "Marley & Me" a bit too hard-edged, then Darling Companion may be the dog movie for you. On the other hand, if you like to watch cute pooches doing cute stuff on screen, you may be a little disappointed.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 15, 2012
It meanders about as much as its eponymous pooch.
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40
Apr 19, 2012
The doggie in Darling Companion is a big, warm bundle of puppy love; his owners are lost forever in a big chill.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
30
Apr 26, 2012
Jenkins is a fantastically adaptable talent. It helps that his character here is supposed to be innately likable (by everyone, evidently, but his girlfriend's family), since Jenkins is so likable as an actor. Good thing, because there is little else to like about Darling Companion.
By Bill Goodykoontz FULL REVIEW
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Apr 14, 2012
A lost-dog drama so insufferable it makes one wish its human characters would also run off and never return.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Werc Werk Works, Kasdan Pictures, Likely Story
Release Date Apr 20, 2012
Duration 1 h 43 m
Rating PG-13
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Website http://www.facebook.com/DarlingCompanion
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