Stoutly reactionary animal tale, with a compatible back-to-nature plotline: a skateboarding, MTV-watching, Walkman-wearing Baltimore brat is transplanted to Franklin Falls, Va. (pop. 148), and along the way acquires a stray collie. Or more accurately, the collie, named explicitly after the 1950s TV star, acquires the boy. (Splendid subjective panning shot of the suddenly masterless dog picking out a likely new owner from the line of gawkers at the scene of the accident.) The dog's bravery, strength, loyalty, etc., can be taken for granted; her clairvoyance, her near omniscience, must be taken with grains of salt. Thomas Guiry, Helen Slater, Jon Tenney, Richard Farnsworth; directed by Daniel Petrie. (1994) — Duncan Shepherd
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