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
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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.