Directed by: Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Written by: Pamela Gray, Annie Mumolo, & Tim Lovestedt
Starring: Kate Mara
Mara plays a lost young woman whose best friend just died. Feeling depressed and unmotivated, she joins the army to finally get a purpose to her life. But as she continues her service, she finds that her purpose may be something entirely different than originally thought.
The best part of the film is getting an inside look into the army and especially the canine department. Her relationship with Max, the dog, shows great character development for herself as well as the dog. Both have a purpose and it's noticeable how much they care about each other.
The film had pretty much everything technical wise in terms of plot, location, camera work, etc... The only negative, but could not be fixed, is that you could tell the dog was acting. For example, he would rush to Mara as if it was a touching reunion, but she would cry, but he would just stand there panting. Dogs typically lick and jump and down when they are reunited with their owner. So it was obvious it was staged, but you can only control dogs so much. I'm sure they just wanted him to get from point A to point B and he accomplished just that.
The story overall was touching and I cried here and there. 4 popcorns.
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