1989 · drama · animation · family
All Dogs Go to Heaven
Directed by Don Bluth1h 24m1989
When a casino-owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven. Wanting to get back at his killer, he cons his way back to the living with the warning that doing so damns him to Hell. Once back, he teams with his old partner, Itchy, to prep his retaliation. He stumbles upon an orphan girl who can talk to the animals, thus allowing him to get the inside info on the races to ensure his wins to finance his plans. However, all the while, he is still haunted by nightmares of what's waiting for him on the other side unless he can prove that he is worthy of Heaven again.
Our read: All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) reads as a cosy, breathless, surreal drama · animation · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle drama / animation, surreal in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- surreal
- redemptive
- tender
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