My Dog Stupid

My Dog Stupid

You Don't Choose Your Family, Or Your Dog.

2019106 min6.0 / 10

A warm, gently comedic story about an aging writer finding unexpected companionship and purpose through an unlikely friendship with a flawed dog, amid family friction and personal stagnation.

Henri is a middle-aged writer with fading inspiration who has published nothing worthy of note in years. Feeling increasingly misunderstood by his wife and four grown up deadbeat kids, he dreams of running away to start over again. Yet when he discovers an unattractive, bad-mannered dog in his garden, he decides to adopt him and both start developing an unexpected friendship that inevitably upsets Henri’s family and neighbors.

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