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- 2023
- TV-PG
- Netflix
- 1 h 35 m
- 2023
- TV-PG
- Netflix
- 1 h 35 m
Summary In this drama based on a true story, a young man and his father begin a desperate search to find their beloved dog Gonker on the Appalachian Trail before it’s too late. [Netflix]
Directed By: Stephen Herek
Written By: Pauls Toutonghi, Nick Santora
- 2023
- TV-PG
- Netflix
- 1 h 35 m
- 2023
- TV-PG
- Netflix
- 1 h 35 m
Dog Gone
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3.6
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Summary In this drama based on a true story, a young man and his father begin a desperate search to find their beloved dog Gonker on the Appalachian Trail before it’s too late. [Netflix]
Directed By: Stephen Herek
Written By: Pauls Toutonghi, Nick Santora
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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50% Mixed
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3 Reviews
17% Negative
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1 Review
Despite the cynicism that permeates any film about family values, Dog Gone takes great pains to avoid sentimentality. It’s a tearjerker with mature intentions.
As aww-inspiring as the human and dog moments in the movie are, it is the human encounters along the search that are the heart of the film.
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Generally Unfavorable
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This exhaustively sanitized, overly saccharine take on the hero’s journey is certainly nothing new, but it remains rather uninteresting.
Dog Gone isn’t a very good movie. But if you and your kids love dogs, you’d be cheating yourself by missing it.
There’s a lot going on here, not much of it all that interesting. Although you do get to see Rob Lowe clomp around in the woods. And that's something.
Even viewers with a tolerance for this kind of saccharine cinema — oversaturated green grass, slow-motion sprinting, kindly biker gangs, and a fleeting bar squabble in which the nastiest insult is “Idiot!” — will likely say their favorite part is the end credits.
