Snowdogs - eight heroes on four paws

Movie
German title	Snowdogs - eight heroes on four paws
Original title	Snow Dogs
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2002
length	95 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6 JMK 6
Rod
Director	Brian Levant
script	Mark Gibson , Michael Goldberg , Philip Halprin , Jim Kouf , Tommy Swerdlow
production	Casey Grant , Jordan Kerner , Christine Whitaker
music	John Debney
camera	Thomas E. Ackerman
cut	Roger Bondelli
occupation
Cuba Gooding jun. : Dr. Ted Brooks James Coburn : James "Thunder Jack" Johnson Sisqó : Dr. Rupert Brooks Nichelle Nichols : Amelia Brooks M. Emmet Walsh : George Murphy Graham Greene : Peter Yellowbear Brian Doyle-Murray : Ernie Joanna Bacalso : Barb Jean Michel Paré : Olivier Christopher Judge : Dr. Brooks Sr.

Snowdogs - Eight Heroes on Four Paws is an American adventure comedy from 2002 . The Disney production is based on the Iditarod experience report . The toughest dog sled race in the world (Original title: Winterdance. The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod ) by Gary Paulsen .

action

Dr. Ted Brooks is a successful dentist in Miami and leads a luxurious life there. When he receives mail from a notary in Tolketna, Alaska , his mother tells him that he has been adopted. He immediately sets off for Alaska to sell his inheritance - the log cabin and his mother's sled dogs. Gradually, however, he develops a relationship with the animals and with the entire Alaskan mentality and distances himself from this thought, not least because he falls in love with the attractive bar owner Barb.

When his father Thunder Jack takes part in the annual sled race and has an accident, Brooks sets out to find him. He finds him injured in a cave and, very late, brings him over the finish line, where Barb and Ted's adoptive mother are already waiting. Thunder Jack and Brooks are celebrated as heroes.

Dr. Brooks marries Barb and opens a dental practice in Alaska.

Criticism and Awards

Neva Chonin criticized the "clichéd dialogues". The characters in the Disney films with real actors are less believable than the characters in the cartoons such as The Lion King .

The lexicon of international films wrote: "Naive adventure story that offers well-intentioned values ​​for sale as a poorly profiled common property."

John Debney won the ASCAP Award in 2003 for film music .

backgrounds

The film was in Florida , British Columbia and Alberta ( Canada turned) and cost 33 million US dollars. In US theaters, the film grossed over $ 81 million.

literature

• Gary Paulsen: Iditarod. The toughest dog sled race in the world. (Original title: Winterdance. The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod ). German by Brigitte Jakobeit. Piper, Munich and Zurich 2000, 254 pages, ISBN 3-492-22910-7 .
• Gary Paulsen: Winter dance. The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod. (Original edition in English), A Harvest Book - Hartcourt, Inc., San Diego, New York and London 1994, 256 pages, ISBN 0-15-600145-4 .

Web links

• Snow Dogs - eight heroes on four paws in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Snow Dogs - eight heroes on four paws at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
• Snow Dogs - eight heroes on four paws at Metacritic (English)
• Snowdogs - Eight heroes on four paws in the online film database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Age rating for Snowdogs - eight heroes on four paws . Youth Media Commission .
2. ↑ San Francisco Chronicle , January 18, 2002 issue
3. ↑ Snowdogs - Eight heroes on four paws. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
4. ↑ Box office income , boxofficemojo.com