Just like the book, this movie has substance, humour and a huge heart.
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01/08/09
Marley & Me (2008)
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Reviews Counted:123
Fresh:75
Rotten:48
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Pet owners should love it, but Marley and Me is only sporadically successful in wringing drama and laughs from its scenario.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Jan 1, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $143,084,510
Synopsis: The filmmakers behind THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA take on another bestseller in the family film MARLEY AND ME. Based on the hit memoir by John Grogan, MARLEY AND ME chronicles the relationship of John... [More]
Starring: Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Alan Arkin
Director: David Frankel
Reviews for Marley & Me
Top CriticIt's a refreshing return to comedies that deal with something other than dating.
01/08/09
Top CriticWhen it's funny, it's laugh-out-loud stuff. When it's dramatic, it goes straight to the heart. You never feel the gears shift.
01/02/09
Top CriticGiven the jaunty promise of the early scenes, the drawn-out denouement is a mawkish disappointment.
01/02/09
Top CriticWilson may always appear a little too flaky to be bankable as a romantic lead, but set Aniston aside and this could be the purest love story he'll ever get.
01/02/09
Top Critica portrait of a marriage, a glimpse of a writer struggling to discover his strengths but above all, it is a touching story about the profound love between a man and his dog
12/19/08
Top CriticIt left me crying like a five year old...
07/05/09
Even dog skeptics might be surprised how deftly Marley & Me adapts newspaper columnist John Grogan's book...into the equivalent of a kid's movie for adults. [Blu-ray]
04/26/09
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04/23/09
...the strength of the finale effectively elevates everything that preceded it...
04/17/09
Marley & Me is a film of moments and many of them are cute. For anyone who has ever had a dog or a close pet, there's bound to be some connection.
04/10/09
The conclusion transforms at least this part of the film from sappy romance to beautifully authentic meditation on life, death and a family's love for its long-time loyal dog.
04/08/09
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03/22/09
Directed with admirable sensitivity and spot-on populist instincts...
03/20/09
It is a very positive film, so it won't appeal to cynics, but it should appeal to just about everyone else.
03/15/09
The idea that this screen dog is so cute and lovable that everything ripped, chewed, swallowed or destroyed can merely be replaced and ignored is more out of a Stephen King reality than the world as we know it.
03/15/09
In the cinema, all of us tough, cynical critics had tears welling in our eyes, swallowing hard; our lips, so often curled in a cheap sneer, were now trembling, because of the same desperately sad thought: "Owen Wilson used to be really good..."
03/13/09
Top CriticThere is something wildly odd about a film that measures human happiness with the whims of a dog.
03/13/09
Top CriticThere's much more to this than just the cute dog.
03/13/09
Evidently contrived and something of an ungainly hybrid, the film shares its canine protagonist’s facility for wearing down your resistance.
03/13/09
Latest News for Marley & Me
March 17, 2009:
Marley & Me Dominates Foreign Box Office 
The story about a family and their dog takes down Watchmen with a $13.9m haul in its first international weekend. More...
January 04, 2009:
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Marley Still #1 and Races Past $100M
Moviegoers caught up on those holiday films they didn't see over Christmas weekend as the top seven films finished in the exact same slots as last weekend with the dog drama... More...
December 28, 2008:
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Marley Takes #1, The Spirit Tanks
This weekend people were in the mood for movies over Christmas weekend as multiplexes were jam-packed with customers that powered four different new releases to more than $30M... More...
December 23, 2008:
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