Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 01/18/2002(USA)
Release Date: 05/14/2002
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DTS/DD5.1
Run Time: 99 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children, Adult Humor
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video
Two Oscar-winning actors add a
family-oriented comedy to their resumes with this
Disney-produced arctic adventure.
Snow Dogs stars
Cuba Gooding Jr. as
Ted Brooks, a Florida-dwelling dentist with a successful chain of offices and a comfy, poolside lifestyle. All this changes, however, when he finds out that he was actually adopted as a child, and that his birth mother has died and left him an inheritance in her home state of Alaska, of all places. After arriving in the snow-bound clime,
Ted learns that he has been willed a pack of cutely named sled dogs:
Demon,
Diesel,
Dutchess,
Nana,
Mack,
Scooper,
Sniff, and
Yodel. Problem is, the town's premiere sled-dogger,
Thunder Jack (
James Coburn), wants the pack for himself, and encourages
Ted to go back to his tropical environs. But with a major sled-dog race looming,
Ted's inspired to learn the ropes, as it were, and prove himself worthy of his birth mother's inheritance -- any way he can.
Snow Dogs was directed by
Jingle All the Way's
Brian Levant and features some animatronic dog effects by
Jim Henson's Creature Shop; the script was very loosely adapted from popular author
Gary Paulsen's nonfiction book
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod.
~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
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