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Marley & Me Tugs at Your Heart Strings |
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Written by TAMI OWENS
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Tuesday, 31 March 2009 |
Based on the New York Times bestselling autobiographical book of the same name by journalist John Grogan, Marley & Me tells the story about a couple and their eventually family’s experience and life lessons they receive from their yellow Labrador dog Marley. This drama came out over last year’s Christmas holiday and set a record for the largest Christmas Day attendance with $14.75 million in ticket sales. If you weren’t one of them you have another chance with the film now available on DVD and Blu-ray.
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Marley & Me
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 Entertainment
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Special Features
Directed by David Frankel
Based on the novel by John Grogan and a screenplay by Scott Frank and Don Roos
Starring Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Alan Arkin and Eric Dane
Rated PG
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John Grogan (Owen Wilson) and his wife Jenny (Jennifer Aniston) relocate to sunny southern Florida after their wedding and end up working as reporters for two different local newspapers. As Jenny’s career is thriving, John’s reporting consists of writing obituaries and exciting stories like a fire at the local dump. John’s friend at the paper Sebastian Tunney (Eric Dane) warns him he better get a dog to slow down his wife’s biological clock. So for Jenny’s birthday John surprises her with a trip to adopt a dog. As John takes Jenny to the airport for a work trip, John drives Marley home for his first time. While listening to reggae the name Marley sticks. From the on-set the young pup proves to more incorrigible then he could have imagined. From his barking, to his eating everything in sight, Marley truly proves to be a handful. Even taking Marley to an experienced dog trainer named Ms. Kornblut (Kathleen Turner) proves to be a fruitless effort. John finally gets a break when Editor Arnie Klein (Alan Arkin) offers him a twice-weekly column that focuses on everyday life. Although John isn’t immediately happy with the promotion since he thinks of himself more as a reporter then a columnist he soon realizes he’s quite good at it. With the help of his pieces and his dog Marley, the Grogan family learns about life and themselves.
Now available on blu-ray, Marley & Me comes with a bonus standard def DVD and a digital copy for your mp3 players. The bonus features include a whopping 19 deleted scenes with optional Director’s commentary that cover a few extra storylines that eventually were cut from the film to help with the already 115 minute running time. There are also a series of featurettes including “Finding Marley”, “Breaking the Golden Rule”, “On Set with Marley: Dog of all Trades”, “Animal Adoption” and one with a fun title – “When Not to Pee”.
Marley & Me is a film that isn’t sure what it wants to be- is it a comedy or a drama? The answer it is a little bit of both. Marley & Me is at times a quite film that deals with the ups and downs of life - some of them fun and some of them quite challenging. It’s a film that will make you smile and it’s a film that will even make you look at your won Powered by AkoComment 2.0! |
