Dakota Fanning, Isabelle Fuhrman, Cody Hanford
A provocative Southern tale set in rural Alabama in the late 1950s, HOUNDDOG is the story of a spirited young girl LEWELLEN (Dakota Fanning) and her struggle to rise above the repression that surround...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 10, 2009
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Flixster Reviews (380)
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November 7, 2009Hounddog captures a certain spirit and essence of the south and is a well acted film. The acting alone couldn't save the film from itself. The story being told is horrific, but it just doesn't come together in a cohesive way.
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October 17, 2009Very slow, but it was worth a watch. Very odd storyline but brought to life as best as could be. The last 25 minutes or so is the best part of the film.
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July 4, 2009"You ain't nothin' but a hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit, and you ain't no friend of mine."
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Deborah Kampmeier's much-hyped Hounddog premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival to a disastrous reception. Following its derailment -
April 19, 2009Dakota Fanning gives her best performance to date. She perfectly captures both her youthful innocence, and her natural maturity that puts her above most child actors. Though the film may be "controversial" and "hard hitting" it is also painfully simplistic and clichéd. Fanning p...( read more)
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March 4, 2009I used to be a great fan of Dakota Fanning. Nowadays -even if her performance is wonderful, like it happens in this film- her presence just annoys me. In many ways, this film feels incomplete -
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November 18, 2009Yes, this is THAT movie. And I guess for what it's worth that scene was done in a moderately tasteful way, although I really can't call the movie as a whole tasteful, since she is parading around in her underwear for half of it. This is a poignant and very dark story, but the hum...( read more)
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October 4, 2009Oh boy, does that girl suffer?
Sweet, touching movie, for some reason it wasn't enough to make me cry, and there was a lot to cry over; I guess it was just the way it was put.
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September 17, 2009dakota fanning is such a great young actress very fine movie some scenes are hard too watch
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September 16, 2009I heard about this movie through a chain e-mail written by a person who was trying to ban this film delcaring it "awful" with a "terrible rape scene of a child." I think this was the first film I've ever seen of a rape with a young child in it. I think the rape scene isn't as dis...( read more)
Critic Reviews
September 26, 2008
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
September 19, 2008
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Dakota Fanning takes an impressive step forward in her career, but that's about the only good thing about Hounddog. full review
September 15, 2008
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
Wright Penn evidently helped get the film financed, but her big scenes feel shoehorned in. This is Dakota Fanning's film. full review
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July 16, 2007i havent seen the movie yet, but i've seen some cilps, & this looks like an amazing movie! i think Dakota was perfect in it.
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February 6, 2007Horrible. The movie has no idea where it's going or how it wants to say what I think the filmmaker wanted to say. Fanning's accent and acting are the worst in the film, despite what review say. Waste of your time, believe me.
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February 5, 2007Very Interested in seeing it. I'm curious about the controversial "rape scene" although most of the fuss is bullshit. Also very interested in the final resolution and central idea of children taking refuge in music, that's what children do.
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