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Dog gone (2023).

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• Parents Say 7 Reviews
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Uplifting family-and-dog tale has emotional intensity.

Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Dog Gone , a film based on a book about a real story, is an ultimately uplifting tale about a search for a lost dog that brings a family closer together. They also find unexpected support across communities. The father and son -- played by Rob Lowe and Johnny Berchtold -- demonstrate…

Why Age 10+?

A dog gets jolted by a shock collar, is found to have a serious illness, and get

"Ass," "damn," "hell," "suck," "dumb," "loser," "stupid," "idiots," "frigging,"

Range Rover, Zoom, Acer, Holiday Inn, Google, Twitter, Associated Press, Dockers

College students drink beer at parties and in the morning at home.

A married couple kisses. A man playing Frisbee takes off his shirt. Two college

Any Positive Content?

Perseverance pays off. "If you stay inside your bubble, you risk suffocation." P

John realizes he needs to show his son he's proud of him rather than criticizing

Main characters are White, some secondary characters are Black. A young man reco

Violence & Scariness

A dog gets jolted by a shock collar, is found to have a serious illness, and gets lost in the woods. A woman accuses a man of abusing animals. A child's dog is hit by a car and killed (not shown), and the child is told not to cry or make a big deal out of it. A dad loses his 20-something son in the woods for a few hours. Bullies at a bar pick a fight but back off when they're threatened in turn. A character vomits blood, collapses, and is rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery.

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A married couple kisses. A man playing Frisbee takes off his shirt. Two college students discuss love and break-ups.

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Positive Messages

Perseverance pays off. "If you stay inside your bubble, you risk suffocation." People should be able to count on their friends, family, and community in times of trouble.

Positive Role Models

John realizes he needs to show his son he's proud of him rather than criticizing him all the time. Fielding feels pressured to figure out what he wants to do with his life post-college graduation. People note that he's a kind person who lacks direction. Ginny's parents were overly strict and didn't give her room to feel big emotions. She learns new skills to help her son find his dog. John and Fielding show perseverance in pushing through physical exhaustion to find their dog, though Fielding risks his health. Friends support the dog hunt, as do strangers in the community.

Diverse Representations

Main characters are White, some secondary characters are Black. A young man recognizes his privilege that his parents were able to put him through college. A group of tough-looking bikers turns out to be generous and empathetic. A group of hippie-looking young people teaches an older man something about the value of taking life slowly.

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Parents need to know that Dog Gone , a film based on a book about a real story, is an ultimately uplifting tale about a search for a lost dog that brings a family closer together. They also find unexpected support across communities. The father and son -- played by Rob Lowe and Johnny Berchtold -- demonstrate perseverance in pushing through physical exhaustion to search for the dog, but the son puts his own health in jeopardy as a result. Potentially frightening scenes include dogs getting seriously ill, killed by a car (not shown), and lost in the woods, and a man vomiting blood and passing out before being rushed to the hospital for surgery. College students drink beer at parties and in the morning at home. Language includes the likes of "ass," "damn," "suck," "loser," "frigging," and "oh my God." To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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Love Animals

Fine but has some inappropriate adult themes, what's the story.

Stinging from a senior-year break-up, Fielding (Johnny Berchtold) adopts a dog and names him Gonkers in DOG GONE. Gonkers and Fielding bond, but his parents -- John ( Rob Lowe ) and Ginny ( Kimberly Williams- Paisley ) -- aren't too thrilled when they come to take him home after graduation. Fielding also doesn't have a job lined up, much less a life plan, unlike most of his graduating friends, to the chagrin of his professional dad. The two men clash, though Gonkers worms his way into John's heart too. When Gonkers disappears after chasing a fox into the woods on the Appalachian Trail, the whole family takes on the search to find him. The hunt pushes dad and son closer together.

Is It Any Good?

Nobody will tell you that this is an amazing movie, but it has enough elements -- cute dog, heartwarming family bonding, gorgeous scenery, some generational humor -- to make it a pleasant watch. Lowe can charm his way through just about any script, as he does as the slightly superior but ultimately well-meaning dad in Dog Gone . His reconnecting with son Fielding is the story's real core, though the search for an adorable, yoga-posing blonde lab makes for an adventure. Still, Fielding's health issues are more suspenseful than the predictable dog hunt. A storyline told through flashbacks of the mother's own childhood experience with a lost dog was unnecessary.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

Families can talk about how people from all walks of life were inspired to help search for the missing dog in Dog Gone . Why do you think they wanted to help?

John and Fielding demonstrate perseverance in searching for their missing dog, but this also compromises Fielding's health. What are the pros and cons of their determination? Do they ever consider giving up?

What was the purpose of showing Ginny's flashbacks to her childhood? Did these scenes add to the character and story? Why or why not?

Why are there so many movies, books, and TV shows about dogs? What's the appeal?

Movie Details

• On DVD or streaming : January 13, 2023
• Cast : Rob Lowe , Kimberly Williams-Paisley , Johnny Berchtold
• Director : Stephen Herek
• Inclusion Information : Female actors
• Studio : Netflix
• Genre : Action/Adventure
• Topics : Book Characters , Brothers and Sisters , Cats, Dogs, and Mice
• Character Strengths : Perseverance
• Run time : 95 minutes
• MPAA rating : NR
• Last updated : February 17, 2023

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"A Dog’s Love Builds a Father/Son Relationship"

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Miscellaneous Immorality: Nothing else objectionable.

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DOG GONE is a family drama on Netflix about a college student who bonds with a dog, but when the dog goes missing, his whole family steps in to help. DOG GONE is a wonderful, enjoyable, heartwarming movie with very positive elements about supporting, encouraging and loving your family.

As the movie opens, Fielding is a college senior who has not yet figured out what he wants to do after graduation. After seeing his ex-girlfriend, he realizes he’s lonely and immediately goes to s rescue shelter to adopt a dog. Fielding sees a wonderful puppy that he decides to take home.

When graduation comes, Fielding’s parents come to see him. However, he’s so distracted by his dog, who he calls Gonker, that he misses his graduation. Days later he returns home to his parents house to live there after college. Fielding’s father is concerned that Fielding doesn’t have a job, or a good plan on getting one.

Although Fielding’s parents, John and Ginny were not excited about him having a dog, soon they fall in love with Gonker. One day, Fielding takes Gonker to the Appalachian trail and tales off his leash. Gonker sees a fox and starts chasing him. Fielding yells and yells for Gonker, but he is nowhere to be found.

When he goes home to tell his parents, they say they will help him find Gonker. Soon, as a family, they have a plan and are taking action to go find Gonker.

DOG GONE is a well-made movie that is entertaining throughout. The movie keeps the jeopardy and is keeps moving. Overall, DOG GONE is an enjoyable movie.

DOG GONE is a very positive movie with strong moral elements. The movie has a Roman Catholic perspective. For example, one passing character prays to Saint Anthony to find the dog and brings the family an icon of the Saint. Though this is the case, the movie has some positive elements of supporting family, loving each other, wanting the best for others and more.

In “Dog Gone,” Rob Lowe plays a businessman who joins his son to search the Appalachian Trail for a lost dog. At one point, he describes his expertise as making “predictive assumptions.” It does not take much expertise to make the predictive assumption that this movie, a heartwarming fact-based story of John Marshall and his son, Fielding ( Johnny Berchtold ) reconciling to find a beloved pet, will have some sweet dog-bonding montages to indie music (Freebridge, VANYO, Easy Tiger), human and canine health crises and tender moments of connection, a little comic relief, photos of the filmmakers hugging their own dogs over the end credits, and some happy tears from the audience. The movie is based on a book of the same name by journalist Pauls Toutonghi , son-in-law of John Marshall and brother-in-law of Fielding. The screenplay by Nick Santora skillfully smooths out the story, with strong control of tone by director Stephen Herek , a fine score by Emily Bear , and cinematographer Michael Martinez making the best possible use of the beautiful Georgia landscape that stands in for a Virginia setting.  

Fielding is a senior in college when he decides to cure a broken heart by going to the pound, where he instantly falls in love with a beautiful, cream-colored puppy he names Gonker. They have a blissful school year together until Fielding realizes the day before graduation that everyone else in his class has a good job lined up, while he is still trying to figure out what kind of job he can do. After missing graduation, because he and Gonker overslept, Fielding moves back home. 

John is crisp, focused, professional, and sometimes sarcastic. “I’m sure it’s worth the six-hour round trip just to see 4,000 strangers dressed in the same outfit,” he says when Fielding shows up after the ceremony. He tells Fielding he does not have the time or responsibility for a pet, and when Fielding insists, John tries to put Gonker in a shock collar to keep him from leaving their property.  

Fielding does yoga and loves to wander around the outdoors. He wears shorts and a shell necklace. He turns down his father’s offers to set him up for job interviews. He is devastated when he overhears his father describing the contrast between them. “I always knew he was disappointed in me, but this time he seemed embarrassed,” he admits. Meanwhile, he does not tell anyone about some troubling symptoms he is experiencing. 

On the Appalachian Trail, Fielding and his best friend Nate (the endearingly wry Nick Peine of “A.P. Bio”) let Gonker run after a fox and they become separated. John drops everything and promises they will find Gonker and bring him home. Fielding’s mother, Ginny ( Kimberly Williams-Paisley ), sets up a command center at the house with fax machines and phone books (“I’m analog!” she says), fliers, and one of those maps with red yarn connecting the various locations. For morale, she posts a “hero list” of all the people helping. The search is especially urgent because there are only 19 days until Gonker must have medication for Addison’s disease. 

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. For Ginny, helping to find Gonker is a way to help resolve the pain she still feels over the Akita she lost as a child. For John and Fielding, it is a way to learn what they have to learn from one another, to discover what they have in common, partly through the encounters they have along the way. Over and over again, they get unexpected support from people they would never otherwise meet, from a man at a gas station who sells them a figure of the patron saint of lost souls to a group of bikers and a sympathetic reporter, many who also have dogs they love. John and Ginny demonstrate what “hard work and calculated, deliberate decisions”—and the kind of resources that pay for a big house and enable the family to take a month off—can accomplish. Most important, as it usually is, is what John communicates simply by being there, showing Fielding what responsibility and commitment means to a father. “You worry about Gonker because you love him, and he’s lost. That’s why I worry about you.” 

Lowe, who also produced, is ideally cast as a man who loves his son even though he does not fully understand him. He brings some low-key sardonic humor to the story, especially when he’s breaking a rule by referring to the ancient caravans on the Silk Road or reminding Fielding that Caesar did not thank the generals until they won. Williams brings warmth to the role as the “analog” Ginny tackles new technology and even social media to help the search. And Berchtold reminds us that “calculated, deliberate decisions” are important, but so are devoted friends, human and otherwise, who love us without conditions.

Now playing on Netflix.

Nell Minow is the Contributing Editor at RogerEbert.com.

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3 Things to Know about Dog Gone , Netflix's New Family Movie

• Michael Foust Crosswalk Headlines Contributor
• Updated Jan 13, 2023

Fielding is a recent college graduate who is searching for direction in life.

His best friend has a job. His other friends do, too. Fielding, though, doesn’t yet know what career he wants to pursue. To make matters worse, his girlfriend just dumped him.

Sad and lonely, Fielding gets a dog, naming it “Gonker.”

They instantly bond. He sleeps with Gonker. He exercises with Gonker. As he later says, Gonker is the best friend he has ever had.

But then Gonker goes missing on the Appalachian Trail, running away as the two hike near the home of Fielding’s parents.

“I promise you we will find that dog,” Fielding’s dad says, knowing its importance in his son’s life.

The father-son team set out on a quest down the Appalachian Trail to search for Gonker. Will they find success?

It’s part of the new Netflix family-centric film Dog Gone (TV-PG), which stars Rob Lowe as Fielding’s father, Kimberly Williams-Paisley as his mother and Johnny Berchtold as Fielding.

Here are three things you should know:

Photo courtesy: Cr. Bob Mahoney/Netflix © 2022, used with permission.

1. It’s Based on a True Story

The film is based on a book of the same name by author Pauls Toutonghi, who recounted the real-life story of a young man named Fielding Marshall who, in 1991, was battling an “oceanic wave of sadness” – his young daughter had died, and his girlfriend had left him – by getting a dog he named “Gonker.” Each morning, the dog helped brighten his day.

2. It Spotlights Family, Love and Reconciliation

The film follows two tracks: Fielding’s search for Gonker and Fielding’s search for direction in life. At the beginning of the movie, Fielding graduates from college with little idea of what career to pursue and with little interest in rushing out into the world. (He even oversleeps and misses his graduation.) His place in life contrasts with that of his friends and his father, a career-driven man.

“He hasn’t found his path yet,” his mother says.

Fielding’s father is frustrated with and embarrassed by his son but nevertheless agrees to walk the Appalachian Trail, fully believing the two will be successful in their venture. Fielding, for his part, wants his dad to love him the same way Gonker does.

It is only by watching Fielding interact with strangers on the trail – he is always kind – and by watching Fielding’s devotion to Gonker that the dad learns better to appreciate his son. (“I have always been proud of you,” he tells him. “... I take pride in your character”).

3. It Reminds Us of the Wonders of Pets

Dogs, and pets in general, are one of God’s great blessings. When we lovingly care for our canines – or, if you prefer, our cats – we are following God’s will in caring for and tending to His creation. ( Psalm 147:9 reminds us that God “provides food for the cattle and for the young ravens when they call.”)

Dog Gone  isn’t a faith -based film, but it nevertheless reflects biblical principles. Fielding takes action when he learns that an animal shelter may be abusing its pets. He displays impressive devotion when Gonker goes missing, not wanting his domesticated companion to become a victim to wolves. The film also reminds us that much “good” can come from the trials of life. (By searching for Gonker, a community comes together, and a family grows closer.)

It includes multiple lessons for parents: 1) Practice grace and patience as your teenagers enter into adulthood, 2) focus on their positive traits, not their negative ones and 3) don’t let the “rat race” of life distract you from enjoying your family.

Dog Gone isn’t a perfect film, but with beautiful scenery, an impressive cast and a great message, it may be a solid pick for some families.

Rated TV-PG. Language details: OMG (6), h-ll (2), a-- (2), d—n (1), misuse of “God” (2). Other content warnings: Fielding and his friends hide beer bottles when his parents arrive at his house.

He and another friend have a brief discussion about atheism and philosophy, although neither takes a position. (“Is atheism a religion?”) Fielding faces a life-threatening illness.

Entertainment rating : 4 out of 5 stars

Family-friendly rating : 3.5 out of 5 stars

Photo courtesy:  Cr. Bob Mahoney/Netflix © 2022, used with permission.

Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.

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Dog Gone also makes you appreciate family relationships more, reminding viewers that there is the ability and potential to rebuild connections with loved ones that may have faltered along the way.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2023

Dog Gone is a sweet tale with no backbone or bark.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jan 28, 2023

The movie offers what it promises. But it could have been more.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 21, 2023

It’s a tearjerker with mature intentions.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 19, 2023

When the most heartwarming and emotion-inducing visuals are the shots of the cast and crew with their beloved dogs over the end credits, then you know Dog Gone lost its way -- and squandered its potential.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 19, 2023

Goofy, oversaturated and saccharine.

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On a scale of one to five, I would give this one "woof."

Dog Gone isn’t a perfect movie, but like a skilled harpist, it delicately plucks along at all the intended emotional heartstrings for a rewarding feel-good movie.

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Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 18, 2023

Perhaps most frustrating about Dog Gone’s unabashed gushiness is that it’s dishonest to the story it’s based on.

Full Review | Original Score: 5.0/10 | Jan 18, 2023

That movie was awful.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 18, 2023

If it is indeed “based on true events” as stated, the filmmakers either added things they shouldn’t have or failed to remove parts thoroughly inappropriate for preteen children or families thinking they’re getting a Hallmark knockoff.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 17, 2023

Overall, Dog Gone is a film for dog lovers and those looking for feel-good family dramas. In its short runtime, Herek manages to give us an emotionally rich experience that stays with you, as long as it lasts.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 14, 2023

Dog Gone is hokey and sappy in many ways, but it’s also a wholesome family movie that’s very sweet.

Full Review | Jan 13, 2023

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Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 13, 2023

It isn’t a very good movie. But if you and your kids love dogs, you’d be cheating yourself by missing it.

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Give the dog a wig of blond ringlets and he could do a passable lampoon of Lillian Gish.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jan 13, 2023

When it comes down to it, “Dog Gone” is an inspiring, uplifting story about people – from all over the world – who come together to reach a common goal: to find Gonker. Even if you can correctly guess what will transpire, it can elicit some tears.

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