Based on Louis De Berniere's collection of stories about Australia's apocryphal dog, who roamed the North-East in the 1970s. Good screenplay (Daniel Taplitz) frames these stories from a night in a boozer, anxiously waiting on the dog's progress, as stories are told to a passing stranger.
Sweet, mad, proud, crazy (shark is 'Lord Nelson'), talking of which loved the Jaws and Leone references, and that high speed fight between Red Dog and Cat.
Josh Lucas, Rachel Taylor, Noah Taylor, Rohan Nichol, Luke Ford (the stranger), Arthur Angel (Italian), John Batchelor.
And Koko as Red Dog. He won the Golden Collar Award in LA but not the Palm Dog (which went to Banjo and Poppy for Sightseers).
Photographed by Geoffrey Hall (The Tourist 3 episodes, Chopper), edited by Jill Bilcock (Baz Luhrman films, Road to Perdition).
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