A small-town cop takes custody of the sole witness to a murder, a masterless mastiff. The man is a compulsive neatnik, and the dog is a frothing, drooling, farting, beer-drinking, furniture-eating slob -- and therein lies the joke, the whole and only joke. It took a committee of five scriptwriters to come up with this. Sometimes, in spite of them, the dog manages all by himself to be funny -- as when we first see him, charging straight toward the camera, with the loose skin around his face rising and falling and changing his expression from Droopy Dog to the Hound of the Baskervilles. (Thanks in part, maybe, to the slow-motion, but in no part to the opening notes of Also Sprach Zarathustra.) With Mare Winningham and Craig T. Nelson; directed by Roger Spottiswoode. (1989) — Duncan Shepherd
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