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The Dog Lover
An animal rights activist (Allison Paige) poses as a college intern to investigate possible abuse on a dog-breeding farm. She then finds herself torn between doing her job and doing what’s right, and she awakens to the moral contradictions of her work with the UAPA.
6 September 1983, Tokyo, Japan
19 August 1963, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
4 June 1985, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
29 December 1973, Kingsville, Texas, USA
1 August 1981, Redding, California, USA
July 15, 2016
Heavy-handed drama is well-acted but manipulative.
July 07, 2016
The film's prevailing theme may be that nothing is black and white, but the execution ... proves spottier than a kennel full of caged Dalmatians.
July 02, 2016
Clever but manipulative.
July 07, 2016
The Dog Lover looks less like a cheesy drama destined for the Lifetime Channel than it does a piece of anti-government propaganda. In this movie at least, the businessman is the underdog.
July 08, 2016
The movie is shamelessly manipulative on several levels, and the cast members do their respective bits effectively.
July 07, 2016
Rescue-dog purists may not approve of the line "The Dog Lover" takes, yet to this dog lover it comes off as compassionate and realistic: a plea for a place where good care can become common sense.
January 09, 2017
The Dog Lover may be "based on a true story," but everything about it feels so artificial and agenda-driven that it's impossible to enjoy unless you're already firmly on its side.
July 11, 2016
It's all as clunkily melodramatic as it sounds, with the climactic trial sequences proving particularly slow going.
July 07, 2016
At best, The Dog Lover is like a bad Hallmark Channel or Lifetime movie, so bland and vanilla it would be inhumane to canines to call it a "dog" of a movie.