A Dog's Life: A Dogamentary

January. 01,2004      NR
Rating:
6.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A Dog's Life: A Dogamentary, a wacky and poignant documentary about the positive effects of the bond between dogs and humans, told through the story of Gayle Kirschenbaum and her dog Chelsea. Chelsea rigged with a "doggie cam", this couple hit the streets of NY looking for love. 9/11 happens. Chelsea emerges as a healing force as a therapy dog.

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Reviews

Lucybespro
2004/01/01

It is a performances centric movie

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FirstWitch
2004/01/02

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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Aubrey Hackett
2004/01/03

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

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Suman Roberson
2004/01/04

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

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mmorissp
2004/01/05

Gayle Kirschenbaum created a touching and funny movie about the love and companionship between people and dogs. Chelsea (Gayle's dog) has to be the cutest dog ever!This wonderful "dogamentary" not only moved me but my daughter who is 11 years old. After seeing this film she insisted we get her a dog. She was inspired to make her own a movie. The "doggie cam" showing Chelsea's point of view is priceless! You don't have to be a dog lover to love this film. This film is fun, funny and touching!

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Andrew Hans
2004/01/06

I saw this movie on New Year's Day in 2007 with my Miniature Schnauzer, Samantha.This is a beautiful love story, albeit with a different angle. Gayle is a wonderful film maker who handled a difficult subject with style and class.While Chelsea is in Doggie Heaven now, she will always be remembered as a caring loving dog. Aren't they all?I loved the music especially the song Dog's Life by Dave's True Story off the album Nature. it is a must for Jazz lovers and is in current rotation on my iPod 5 years after I first heard it.See this movie, don't forget your dog!

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onlywiretracking
2004/01/07

After just one viewing, this instantly became one of my favorite movies for several reasons: First, it's a very sweet story about a woman and her dog. It's light, it's fun and it shows how much one woman can love her dog. It's a downright feel good movie. If you have a dog, you'll love it even more. If you don't, you'll realize what you're missing.Second, Gayle's efforts in putting this movie together, getting it distributed, gathering support, etc. virtually on her own, are incredibly motivating.Third, Gayle's confidence and go-for-it attitude all through the movie are so inspiring.Helen Keller said: "Life is a daring adventure or it's nothing at all." Gayle is the embodiment of that quote and her movie is proof of that.I read the negative comments about this movie. I can't figure out what these people are talking about. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but these are so extreme I wonder what the motivation for posting them would have been.If you want a sweet story about a woman and her dog, put together by a lone dog lover, not a big studio, I recommend this one so highly.And my bet is that the last few minutes of this film will bring you some of the biggest smiles. They did for me.As a disclaimer, I have no business or personal relationship with Gayle aside from letting her know how much I love her movie.

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yngsong-114-254624
2004/01/08

I train dogs and own dogs so I expected to love this. But this was 33 minutes of my life that I will never get back... it was just a story of a crazy dog lady who had way too much time on her hands and enough money to produce a video showcasing this fact.It was a great concept, finding love as a single dog owner. But not as a CRAZY dog owner who is as self absorbed and insane about her dog as she appeared in the movie. The dogs were giving off several stress signals throughout(looking away, yawning). I just felt bad for them and wished they were allowed to just be dogs.Seriously, pass this one by.

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