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While this movie has good intentions, it is quite depressing in many ways. Rather amateurish in nature (and featuring a definite non-professional cast), it was often hard for me at times to really believe what was going on. The trained German shepherd is adorable, but he's not your average Gernan shepherd. No house dog has the ability to maneuver a ladder to climb it, grab something and run, and not before turning out the lights so the proprietor of a junk dealer falls out of a cubbyhole 15' from the floor. You expect the dog to turn to the camera at this point and say, "Aren't I a stinker?", especially after a sequence with a bunch of dogs in the pound expressing their thoughts in silly accents.

The opening is very disturbing, showing a car crash where the driver responsible just drives off in a fury. The family dog pulls the young boy out of the burning car which kills his parents, and the dog chases the ambulance taking the kid to the hospital. The dog's journey to find the boy seems to take him all over the country, and for a while, he's with a group of firemen, able to hang on to the back and eventually pull himself up so he can sit in the driver's seat. This film is loaded with unbelievable stunts like that, intertwined with shots of the now mute kid in the hospital dreaming of the dog and being cared for by social workers determined to find out what's going on in his mind and figuring out where to put him. The inappropriately silly music is a nuisance, and the conclusion truly is preposterous. I can't see this playing in movie theaters outside of church basements, but it managed to make it out into the mainstream somehow.