A Boy and His Dog

    A Boy and His Dog
    1975

    Synopsis

    Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War IV, where survivors must battle for food and shelter in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.

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    Cast

    • Don JohnsonVic
    • Susanne BentonQuilla June Holmes
    • Jason RobardsLou Craddock
    • Tim McIntireBlood (Voice)
    • Alvy MooreDr. Moore
    • Helene WinstonMez Smith
    • Charles McGrawPreacher
    • Hal BaylorMichael
    • Ron FeinbergFellini
    • Michael RupertGery

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Entertainment Weekly

      Though the film may not have one decent character, A Boy and His Dog (rereleased after a six-year moratorium) manages to be a likable celebration of friendship among the ruins.
    • 91

      Entertainment Weekly

      Jones directed and scripted this mordant sci-fi comedy from a novella by Harlan Ellison; the satire gets a trifle woozy in the picture’s last third, but the film is redeemed by one of the great bad-taste endings of recent cinema.
    • 88

      Slant Magazine

      A Boy and His Dog is an unruly daydream capped with a surprisingly jet-black acknowledgment of humankind’s genetic destiny to ruin itself.
    • 83

      IndieWire

      A Boy and His Dog is worth seeing if only just for the bizarre turns of phrase tossed around between the rag-tag pair.
    • 75

      TV Guide Magazine

      Adapted from an award-winning novella by science-fiction writer Harlan Ellison, A Boy And His Dog has won a cult following of its own for its offbeat, sardonic look into the future.
    • 63

      Chicago Sun-Times

      It's got a unique . . . well, I was about to say charm, but the movie's last scene doesn't quite let me get away with that.
    • 60

      Time Out

      What lifts things right out of the rut is the cynical commentary provided by the hero's dog, communicating telepathically (in voice-off admirably spoken by Tim McIntire) and kicking the daylights out of all those boy-and-his-dog yarns.
    • 60

      Empire

      The execution doesn't quite enliven the premise, but there's still enough enjoyably offbeat moments here to make this one worth digging up.

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