A Boy & His Dog
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Actor: Don Carter, Hal Baylor, Michael Hershman, Ron Feinberg, Susanne BentonPrimary Contributor: Don Johnson
Primary Contributor: Jason Robards
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-11-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Movie Reviews of A Boy & His Dog
Movie Review: This movie...NOT MAD MAX...Is the start of a genre and the spawn of 100's of knockoffs!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
For the same price, you can have some GREAT extras and a great picture...Despotism is a great documentary like piece about the form of goverment that you will see in this movie. A House in the Middle just left me laughing and speechless. Here is a pure propaganda piece that claims a specific kind of paint will help protect your house when the big bomb drops...HILARIOUS!
This amazing cult-classic won Don Johnson his first acting award of his career. He won a Golden Scroll for best-actor and the movie was nominated for the best science fiction film of the year. This movie was made in 1975, a full 4 years before Mad Max and it's amazing how few Mad Max fans even know about it or have seen it...
The setting is the same, a post-apocalyptic wasteland where commodities are few and far between and the rule of law is every man for himself...
Mad Max starts off with his girl being off'd by outlaw bikers...It continues with The Road Warrior where Max fights for fuel and ends with Beyond Thunderdome where Max finds civilization and helps free the oppressed...
A Boy and His Dog is all three of these movies in one. This film spawned the genre of post-apocalyptic films. Don Johnson is good and the dialogue is really amusing...Penned by award winning author Harlan Ellison, this movie defines the category that it created.
Summary of A Boy & His Dog
A BOY AND HIS DOG is a wild, kinky and darkly hilarious cinematic adventure, a cult classic for almost 30 years and an inspiration for an era of sci-fi films, including the Mad Max movies. Based on the Nebula winning novella by Harlan Ellison and directed by L. Q. Jones, it stars Don Johnson, Jason Robards and Susanne Benton.Set in the year 2024 in Post-Apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic (Johnson) and his telepathic dog Blood (voiced by Tim McIntyre) are happy scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War Four, where survivors must battle for food, shelter, and sexual companionship in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats. When they find a woman named Quilla Jones (Benton), she lures Vic into a bizarre underground city, where he is to be used against his will to impregnate dozens of young ladies!
Closely adapted from the acclaimed novella by Harlan Ellison, this postapocalyptic black comedy has emerged as a cult favorite since its release in 1975, when Don Johnson was a relative unknown and still years away from TV stardom on Miami Vice. Here Johnson plays a young, libidinous loner named Vic who roams the postnuclear wasteland with his loyal dog, Blood, a remarkable hound with keen intelligence and the ability to telepathically communicate with his less-intelligent master. It's survival of the fittest, so food and sex are Vic's highest priorities, and he gets plenty of both when recruited into a mysterious underground society in desperate need of young fertile males. While Blood must fend for himself on the unfriendly surface, Vic realizes that he's an exploited prisoner and must escape to return to the canine friend he left behind. Thanks in large part to the sly wit of Blood (whose sarcastic voice is splendidly provided by Tim McIntire), this clever and disturbing film readily earns its lasting reputation as a low-budget classic, and features a funny yet chilling supporting role for Jason Robards Jr. --Jeff Shannon
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