A Dog's Way Home

2019
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A Dog's Way Home
Poster A Dog's Way Home

Title: A Dog's Way Home

Original Title: A Dog's Way Home

Year: 2019

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Release Dates

  • UK: January 25 2019
  • United States: January 11 2019

Plot

'A Dog's Way Home' begins in the city of Denver, Colorado, where a pit bull puppy named Bella is forgotten when animal control evacuates her makeshift family of puppies and kittens from an abandoned warehouse. When walking through a local neigbourhood, Bella finds her way into the home and heart of a young man named Lucas, a young boy with a habit of feeding and caring for the local strays, and the two of them bond over adorable games such as fetch, chasing squirrels and Lucas' favorite game: "Don't-chew-shoes". However, over the years Lucas starts to grow up and make decisions that largely separate him from Bella, until the once inseparable pair are far too distant for Bella's liking. To tackle this, Bella decides to embark on an epic journey spanning more than 400 miles from New Mexico to reunite with her owner, spreading joy and friendship along the way, in her quest to find her way back to her heart's true home.

This family friendly-adventure is based on the novel by W. Bruce Cameron, 'A Dog's Way Home', and directed by the filmmaker behind 'Dolphin Tale' and 'Dolphin Tale 2', Charles Martin Smith. Bryce Dallas Howard provides the voice of Bella and is joined by cast members Ashley Judd, Jonah Hauer-King, Edward James Olmos and Alexandra Shipp.

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Trivia

Finding Ron Howard

Famous director Ron Howard appears to have a hidden cameo in the film. In the background, near the end of the movie, a man gets out of a car, and it's Ron Howard. This is likely because his daughter, Bryce Dallas Howard, plays the voice of Bella. Howard also co-starred in American Graffiti with director Charles Martin Smith.

Wolfs? No, thank you

The wolves in this film are really coywolves which are a wolf-coyote hybrid. Regular wolves that inhabit northwestern American states (including Alaska), northern portions of the Great Lakes region and Canada are gray/grey and white while coyotes have brown, tan, gray/grey and white fur. Coyotes that are partially wolves inhabit northeastern American states and eastern Canada.

Bella

The dog that plays the adult version of Bella is named Shelby and she was a rescue dog. She was found living in a junkyard in Tennessee.

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