Bryan Brown, Charlotte Graham, Dudley Sutton
Set in Edwardian England, an Englishman seems to love his dog more than his adult son until father and son take off on a strange journey.
Stats: 102 reviews
What starts with a film that doesnt know where it wants to go, grows into a strange and amuzing story about an excentric priest who believe he used to be a dog. It sounds strange but it remains amuzing to watch so stick with it. Unfortunately it drags in places and feels rather s...( read more)
Very charming. Very, very funny. Very touching. With beautiful dialog and great acting. Wonderful and totally fresh and surprising.
Beautiful little film, a fantastic script performed by fantastic actors. Sam Neill is wonderful as the dean with flashbacks to his life as a ... dog?
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Although the main charater was somewhat plane and boring, it made the rest glow stronger
a youngv son whos distant from his father, gts to know dean sparkley, a rather ecentric fellow who when has a bit of a tipple of a rare wine tells fasinating stories of his past life as a dog, here man goes to great lenths to secure said bottle and listens why learning along the ...( read more)
The tragic thing about some films is that they're too nice for their own good. In the whole of Oxford, only one independent cinema took Dean Spanley, and then for just one week. It has no violence; no sex; no bad language, and no speeding car chases (well it would n't in Victoria...( read more)
Sam Neill is rather good as a Dean who recites memories of a past life as a dog in this odd but asethetically charming period piece. If you can get past Peter O'Toole pulling faces.
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