'Max'
U; Drama
Director: Boaz Yakin
Cast: Josh Wiggins, Thomas Haden Church, Luke Kleintank
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Any movie about a pet dog (or a cat) unabashedly panders to those who have the respective pet at home. They're designed to whip out the tears from pet owners' eyes by including some comedy in the beginning and a tragedy in the end. If you've seen films like 'K9', 'Turner and Hooch' and 'Marley and Me' you'll know those movies are all pretty much the same thematically and narratively, even if they have different stories. The thing is, most of these pet-based movies make money because they're so populist in nature, so we get more and more of these movies.