White Dog (Criterion Collection) PG

When man’s best friend becomes his fiercest enemy…
White Dog (Criterion Collection)
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  • Rated: PG
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: December 2, 2008
  • Originally Released: 1981
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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User Ratings: 2,308
Rating: 3/4 -- ...a racism PSA delivered with Fuller's signature, in-your-face style. Full Review
LarsenOnFilm
Aug 25, 2017
Rating: 5/5 -- A simply told story that says more about racism than many NAACP-approved films. Full Review
eFilmCritic.com
Apr 9, 2007
Rating: B -- Compelling oddball thriller about a racist dog who only attacks blacks is directed by the always interesting Sam Fuller. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Oct 12, 2006
The film has a TV-movie cheesiness overruled by Fuller's expert deployment of the camera, brisk pacing and committed performances. Full Review
New Statesman
Apr 3, 2014
[An] uncompromising, poignant examination of racism....A gripping, meditative, and ultimately beautiful achievement... -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
Dec 12, 2008
Rating: 4/4 -- Hate is a dog from hell in White Dog, Samuel Fuller's abused and abandoned late-career masterpiece about homegrown racism. Full Review
Slant Magazine
Dec 12, 2008
Rating: 1.5/5 -- As they say in Arkansas: this dog don't hunt.
Film Threat
Jun 16, 2006

Product Description:

Sam Fuller's blunt parable about racism, WHITE DOG, explores what happens when a young actress (Christy McNichol) adopts a German Shephard that has been trained to attack black people. After a number of terrifying attacks, she hires a black trainer (Paul Winfield) to rehabilitate the animal. Together, their effort to cure the white dog of its vicious upbringing becomes something an ethical experiment: can hatred be unlearned'

A trenchant moral drama that isn't subtle, or easy to forget, WHITE DOG is well aided by Ennio Morricone's fine musical score which deepens its operatic dimensions and adds a layer of psychological unease. Produced in 1982, the film's controversial subject matter caused it to be withheld from theatrical release until 1991. Loosely adapted from the memoir by Romain Gary, Fuller co-wrote the screenplay with a pre-L.A. CONFIDENTIAL Curtis Hanson.

Description by Image Entertainment:

Samuel Fuller's throat-grabbing expose on American racism was misunderstood and withheld from release when it was made in the early eighties; today, the notorious film is lauded for its daring metaphor and gripping pulp filmmaking. Kristy McNichol stars as a young actress who adopts a lost German Shepard, only to discover through a series of horrifying incidents that the dog has been trained to attack black people, and Paul Winfield plays the animal trainer who tries to cure him. A snarling, uncompromising vision, White Dog is a tragic portrait of the evil done by that most corruptible of animals: the human being.

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