mrstevehesterman This movie and producers and all that partook in the making of this movie should be banned from all TV movie formats foreverrrr! The Movie starts out sorta quirky & fun, but ends all too graphically with the star wiener dog being purposely run over by several trucks and cars over and over... displaying their doggy star... ending up a red bloody gutted dead run over puddle of a bloody mess in the middle of the road... and run over several multiple times! This is not acceptable!!! And this movie was listed in Amazon's Kids/Family venue, like we want our kids to see that!!! My wife and I were sickened seeing this! I say everyone should boycott Amazon, Netflix, or anyone who offers this despicable movie! I say forever ban every actor who participated!

TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews An adorable wiener-dog changes owners, impacting these four different miserable and frequently humiliated people, each with terrible personal judgment, who clearly can't take responsibility for her. Remi is a lonely 7-year-old cancer-survivor. He once calmly mentions to his mother "we're all going to die". Dawn, though now an adult, remains naive, and reacting far too positively to Brandon. Gerwig does, some of the time, evoke Matarazzo's spot-on performance. Dave is a middle-aged struggling screenwriter who teaches film school, facing students who are particularly painful to endure. And the elderly Nana is kept company by little other than her regrets.The director's pitch black humor stays strong. We meet more people who definitely shouldn't be taking care of kids, and children who are comprised entirely of depression. One mother describes cremation as "sort of like... being put in an oven". The acting is all good. This is incredibly quotable, why is there only the "heel" one on the page? The fake intermission gave me cramps from laughing. How have DeVito and Todd not worked together before this? The only of his films I haven't watched now is Dark Horse. I love them all(this very much included), though I admit they aren't all equally good(this is one of the "not the best" ones. But I'm ecstatic that I watched it). I watched this as soon as I could, it's available for free streaming on my library's website. It never hit my cinema, an indie and all.The trailer tells you it's hilarious, in that dark way he does: if you watch that, you should have a fair idea of what to expect. Note that a lot of the negative reviews are from people who saw the title, and nothing else about it, and expected it to be heartwarming, rather than, y'know, soul-rending. Storytelling has problems from pacing as it's about such different people and stories; Happiness, the people have stuff in common. This fares pretty well. More exploration of "the h*** of suburbia", and the misery of middle America. The running time is 81 minutes without credits, or 84 with.Yes, the ending is shocking. But if you don't think there was a reason for that...then your mind is not twisted enough for Solondz' work. I recommend this to any fan of his. 7/10

Samantha Parkinson OK so I have watched almost 20 minutes of this heaping pile of garbage that someone decided to call a movie. First off, who are these actors and where did they find them? TERRIBLE TERRIBLE acting. And believe me I watch some pretty stupid crap and like it.... The parents are so stiff and seem like strangers, the mother talks to her maybe?! 8/9 year old kid about a little poodle her mother found, who was raped by a neighborhood stray, who has a pretty racist name, and how the poodle died because she got pregnant from said stray and got AIDS.... WHO TALKS TO THEIR KIDS LIKE THAT?!?!?!?! And the father,who the hell is this guy? He's like a friggen robot with his acting. Did he take William Shatner and David Caruso's acting courses???? I can't even bring myself to watch anymore because this has actually angered me so much in about 17 minutes.

llrmurph This was the worst movie I have ever seen. No redeeming message. These people were all horrible and weak and the sweet dog was the victim over and over. Nobody grows, nobody changes nobody does anything except randomly hurt the dog. The little boy in the beginning has the worst parents in the history of parents. The girl at the vet, after rescuing the dog becomes a complete victim to a drug addict. She gives the dog to a down syndrome couple who are more excited about the leash. A horrible film professor blows her up and then she is killed by a car and run over multiple times. There are many scenes of dog diarrhea, and very long time of seeing a completely smashed dog on the road and cars just go over and over and over and over her. A final treat was to see her stuffed in a museum. The best part was intermission.