White Dog
1982-07-07
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1h 30m
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PG
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Drama
Horror
Thriller
User Score
310 votes
"When man’s best friend becomes his fiercest enemy…"
Overview
Samuel Fuller’s throat-grabbing exposé 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 shepherd, 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 all animals; the human being.
Samuel Fuller
Director
Curtis Hanson
Writer
