Based on the true story of a marine's best friend.
The true story of Marine Corporal Megan Leavey, who forms a powerful bond with an aggressive combat dog, Rex. While deployed in Iraq, the two complete more than 100 missions and save countless lives, until an IED explosion puts their faithfulness to the test.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemporary.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Renoon TMDB · Feb 20188/10
**At the end, every hero's life should be 'happily ever after'!** From the director of 'Blackfish'. It could have been another fine documentary, in the end it was a right choice to be made as a feature film. This is a biographical film, a war drama. The story of a young woman who joined the US army and developed a close relationship with a military dog. They both served in the Iraq war and later separated. So she fought for the dog's custody, especially after it retiring from the service. A touching story about man- animal bonding. You might have seen many dog films, but this is different and so good. People have rights to choose what they want to be. Most importantly, they can change the field at any time. At least that's how things happen in a democracy. But that's not the case for animals, especially human pets under any kind of the ruling system. Why should animals fight human wars! There were many kinds of animal slaveries abolished, yet this kind of legal things still going on. In the present world, it could be okay, but as an animal lover, I hope in the near future, it'll be called inhumane. Anyhow, this is a must watch if you are a pet/dog lover. If you ever had a dog, you
Read the whole review on TMDB - Svumpukkel85on TMDB · Oct 2017
For me being a non-dog-lover, I don't get this movie. Acting was ok, filming ok. Superficial representation of characters. No tension and no feelings ewoked. It was a lame 1½ hr. I recommend this movie for dog-lovers.
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Cast
- Kate MaraMegan Leavey
- Ramón RodríguezMatt Morales
- Tom FeltonSergeant Andrew Dean
- Bradley WhitfordBob
- Will PattonJim
- Sam KeeleySills
- CommonGunny Martin
- Edie FalcoJackie Leavey
- Damson IdrisLt. Michael Forman
- Shannon TarbetBarb
Crew
- Gabriela CowperthwaiteDirector
- Pamela GrayWriter
- Annie MumoloWriter
- Tim LovestedtWriter
- Lorenzo SenatoreDirector of Photography
- Mark IshamOriginal Music Composer
- Peter McNultyEditor
- Mickey LiddellProducer
- Jennifer MonroeProducer
- Pete ShilaimonProducer
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