A Dog Named Christmas (2009)

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

I could go on and on about some of the things people have written but it would be silly. The simple fact is this is a perfect family film. If you love dogs, you will love this. It is actually pretty deep and well thought out. But, even the hardest person will tear up at points because this is a very passionate film. If you don't like dogs, you may not get this. If you live in the country, love dogs, have kids, you will love this. I mean, really love this. Life changing film? Maybe. While the theme of the movie is missed in the first part of the film, it is really developed over the last half of the film. The father figure is an incredibly deep character that is very hard to understand until the end of the film. The mom is perfect and the learning disabled young man plays his role perfectly. Give it a couple hours, you won't be sorry you watched this!

Again, this movie, like all movies presented by Hallmark was an excellent movie. Lots of sentimentality and family values. The writers needed an excuse to bring a dog from the fathers past into the movie, so they put the dog into Viet Nam, where supposedly, the father served. If a movie is going to drag Viet Nam in, the writers need to hire a veteran to proofread the script. To start with, this man is too young to have served in the principal part of the war. Bruce Greenwood was born in 1956. No one born in 1956 served in the Vietnam War. The war ended in 1973 when he was, at the most, 17. He is shown walking patrol and finding the dog. Walking patrol in Viet Nam was over when Bruce Greenwood was 16. Then he is shown reading a letter he had sent his wife from Viet Nam. The envelope has postage on it. All Viet Nam veterans know that letters from Viet Nam were free, just like the letters from Iraq today. Once again, let me reiterate, there were no stamps on letters sent from Viet Nam to the States. To mail a letter, all a soldier had to do was write the word "FREE" in the upper right hand corner. Got that kjirstin-1? Once again, letters from Viet Nam did not, and I repeat DID NOT, have stamps in the right hand corner. The movie was good, let's just leave Viet Nam to the Viet Nam vets shall we.

This is your typical feel good, warming Christmas movie. This sort of film is not normally my cup of tea, but i thought i would give it ago a month before Christmas. Right from the off you get to love the characters and quite frankly, it made me want to go to my local dogs home and pick up a furry friend. The ending is a little predictable but it still never stopped me from having a bit of a blub over my cup of hot chocolate. I am a bit bias though, as i do love Bruce Greenwood and Noel Fisher as actors so for me half the battle is won right there! Well worth watching on a cold, winters night just before Christmas. Close the curtains, settle in and just let the warmth fill the room.

I agree completely with Kjirstin-1. I'm glad she pointed out the "errors" (for want of a better word) in sdquinn2-1's post about Bruce Greenwood's age and the Viet Nam postage issue. I thought bringing that into the film was perfect; it was a great way to explain why George didn't want to bond with another dog.And for those of us who are around the same age as Bruce Greenwood, it was even more powerful to see how his character looked during the war and how he looks now. Something we can 'relate' to, which made the movie that much more powerful and moving. On another note, I adore Bruce Greenwood, and again, in agreement with Kjirstin-1, he could play pretty much any character. He is an incredible actor, and he was perfect for that role. Noah Fisher was also incredible. I've seen him in a few TV shows (Law & Order SVU) where he was good; but he was so believable as the 'challenged' Todd. Not just any actor could perform that well in such a role.To say that the actor dog who played Christmas was phenomenal is an understatement. This was another aspect of the film which made it so great.So to sum up, this was just a wonderful film in every sense of the word. And last but not least, the gentleman who wrote the book upon which the movie was based expressing the need for people to adopt homeless dogs for Christmas not only added to the poignancy of the movie, but hopefully, planted a seed in the viewers' minds about adopting a pet.