When an adorable golden retriever mix named Gonker goes missing along the Appalachian Trail, his haphazard owner (Johnny Berchtold) will stop at nothing to get him back. Based on a true story, Dog Gone shows the lengths one family will go to keep their beloved pet safe. The movie hits Netflix Jan.13.
The feel-good film is based on a true story about one family's quest to find their son's lost dog. Johnny Berchtold and Rob Lowe star in the film about a recent college grad desperate to find his missing dog.
And when, at the moment most had lost all hope, Gonker was found 15 days later and 111 miles away from where he'd gone missing, thousands shared in the Marshall family's joy. The story is now warming hearts in a Netflix film, Dog Gone, starring Rob Lowe, which has shot straight into the streamer's global top 10.
Dog Gone | Official Trailer | Rob Lowe, Johnny Berchtold, Kimberly Williams-Paisley | Netflix
What disease did Gonker the dog have?
Fielding moves in with his parents with Gonker. A few weeks later, Gonker is diagnosed with Addison's disease and needs a life-saving shot every month for the rest of his life. His best friend from college visits him a few weeks later, and they are out on a hiking trail with Gonker, who runs off chasing a fox.
Despite the cynicism that permeates any film about family values, Dog Gone takes great pains to avoid sentimentality. It's a tearjerker with mature intentions. As aww-inspiring as the human and dog moments in the movie are, it is the human encounters along the search that are the heart of the film.
In real life, Gonker died just five years after the events depicted in the film, in 2003, at the aged of 11. Although Gonker was a labrador in the movie, in real life he was a Golden Retriever mix, which is a relatively similar-looking breed to a labrador.
But they need to hurry; Gonker has a condition called Addison's disease. If he doesn't get his monthly shot of medicine within the next 20 days, he'll likely die.
Does the dog die at the end of Dog Gone? No, the dog does not die at the end of Dog Gone. Indeed, there was never a chance of the doggo dying in the movie, because Dog Gone is based on a true story. On October 10, 1998, Fielding Marshall's god Gonker went missing while the pair were hiking on the Appalachian Trail.
Gonker had traveled an estimated 111 miles from Catawba to Wintergreen, Virginia, averaging approximately seven miles a day. Did Fielding Marshall have ulcerative colitis? Yes.
In 2016, Pauls Toutonghi, associate professor of English, published Dog Gone: A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home. It tells the true story of Gonker, a goofy but beloved dog with Addison's disease who got lost on the Appalachian trail in October 1998.
This is interesting, because despite the cynicism that permeates any film about family values, Dog Gone takes great pains to avoid sentimentality. It's a tearjerker with mature intentions.
Gonker belonged to Fielding Marshall, Virginia's son. Adopted while Fielding was a junior at The University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Gonker was a golden retriever who loved wearing sweater vests.
When Grace finds out that James had taken June, she attempts to escape but is shot. James tries to leave with June, but Grace fatally stabs him in the neck with a shard of broken glass.
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Completed in 1937, the A.T. is a unit of the National Park System. It is managed under a unique partnership between the public and private sectors led by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy.
Dog Gone is rated TV-PG by the MPAA for fear. Violence: There is a scene involving one mild threat. Sexual Content: None. Profanity: The script contains three terms of deity and one mild expletive.
Strays is an edgy talking dog movie from the creative team of R-rated comedies like Ted and Sausage Party. The film is set to be released in the prime month of August and could be one of the biggest comedy hits of 2023.
While the basic plot of Dog Gone mirrors the true story, some changes were made for the film. In the movie, Fielding Marshall (played by Johnny Berchtold) is a college senior when he adopts a yellow lab retriever and names it Gonker, and he does it to impress a girl.
