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Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan will present a solo performance based on a monologue that takes the form of a shaggy dog story; a long rambling tale that to some extent follows the conventions of a narrative joke.

So in 2012, the then -14-year-old founded Wags 4 Hope, an organization that raises awareness about heartworm prevention and money to help shelters pay for treatment.At the same time, Annie entered a whimsical painting of a shaggy dog in a competition, and her work earned a lot of attention.

Kathy Wetmore, founder of Shaggy Dog Rescue, is a 501 (c)(3) Non-Profit animal welfare organization dedicated to providing rescue services, vet care, foster care, and adoptive placement to stray and abandoned shaggy dogs.

While they're both send - ups of shaggy dog detective tales, «Lebowski» is all about telling a mystery that ultimately doesn't matter.

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Not exact matches

I flashed back to Fred MacMurray demonstrating flubber, and Tommy Kirk turning into a shaggy dog, and Dean Jones stiffening at the sight of a brewing disaster.

for all its free - associative riffing on ideas, this is no shaggy dog story, but a carefully constructed cinematic poem on the subject of love and loss.

Unfortunately, the film's climax doesn't quite deliver the grand reveal that the rest of the film gestures towards, favouring a shaggy - dog ambivalence that gestures towards surreal ambiguity but perhaps more accurately masks creative indecision

The Newark apartment - building siege is terrific and so is the claustrophobic shaggy - dog episode in Korea, where Gerry and a young virologist visit an embattled group of U.S. Army soldiers at one possible ground zero, where it's apparently always night and always raining.

Bruce Willis barks up a number of wrong trees in this scattered, only sparsely amusing shaggy - dog mystery.

It's as much a snapshot of a screwball neighborhood as it is a loose - ended shaggy dog story, with a weird, buoyant spirit that lifts it up over its somewhat sloppy storytelling.

There's a great shaggy dog story at the heart of Argo and it's a pity it couldn't be rescued from of all the sort - of, kind - of, inspired - by conventional trappings.

As such, it recalls not only the two other sweetly appealing films written and directed by Cameron Crowe («Say Anything» and «Singles»), but also the great shaggy - dog storytelling style of James L. Brooks («Broadcast News»), one of its producers.

Immensely qouteable, fantastically funny, and full of great dialogue - this is the ultimate shaggy dog

Steve Miner directs this shaggy - dog movie that wonderfully reveals the strange and the wondrous in all of God's creations.

Seventeen years after The Shaggy Dog became one of Disney's biggest live action hits, the studio ushered into theaters a sequel, titled The Shaggy D.A., as its major Christmas 1976 release.

The climax of «Jeff» will be argued over by the film's fans — is it a too - big moment that punctures the amiability and shaggy - dog realism of the story thus far, or is it the ultimate point of what's gone before?

Something many teens might enjoy about the film is the idealized portrayal of the «way cool» (for adults, they will be «way too cool to believe») parents, Kat (Enos, Sabotage) and Denny (Leonard, The Shaggy Dog), who grew up in the punk rock scene, only to settle down and live a straight - laced life, though still instilling a sense of individuality and fun in their own children.

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Housed in a regular, white Amray snap case, The Shaggy Dog comes with a paper insert listing chapter stops, and is presented in the viewer's choice of 1.33:1 full screen or 2.40:1 widescreen, the latter enhanced for 16 × 9 televisions.

«The Drop» plays like a seriocomic shaggy - dog story with a hairy man and a baby pit bull at the center of it and ponderous lines about loneliness tacked on to lend it gravity.

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The Square has the aura of a meandering shaggy dog story, but there is no moment that is not carefully placed, that isn't entirely on point.

Come as you are: the cinematographer who crafted the glam looks of Wong Kar Wai's films offers a shaggy - dog look at everyday people in Hong Kong

It has that shaggy dog crime story aesthetic of Leonard, and it's filled with memorable supporting players, all portrayed by interesting character actors.

The customary disc - opening previews promote Lady and the Tramp, the Disney Channel Movie Surfers» upcoming pieces on upcoming flicks The Wild and The Shaggy Dog, Season One of «The Muppet Show», and The Muppets» Wizard of Oz.

The plot of Zoom concerns a former superhero named Jack Shepard (Allen, The Shaggy Dog), aka «Captain Zoom», who has all but lost his powers of speed over the last three decades.

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While it ultimately doesn't amount to more than an amusing shaggy dog story, Jesus» Son is simply two hours in the life of a F*ck head, with an eye for details and nuance that reveals the underlying humor beneath the lives of the sad, the tattered, the broken and the pathetic.

By the end of the film, you'll either come away refreshed that it doesn't exactly end up how you might think, or upset that you've wasted your time following phony - baloney characters stuck in the middle of a faux - erudite shaggy - dog story.

«The Shaggy Dog Kids» (12:25), the first of two featurettes, catches up with almost all of the prominent young cast members from the movie.

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There is a shaggy dog plot about Ben's search for a woman who came within a whisker of being his adopted sister, but the real inquiry here is into something metaphysical — the title refers to apparently random events that are influenced by the same forces that guide particles and planets.

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Most notable among these is the gently playful shoehorning of genre elements into a whispery character study: 40 - odd minutes in, the film casually yawns, stretches and takes up an shaggy - dog mystery plot born of the director's love for detective fiction.

Far less noxious — and much more crossover - friendly — than most of their peers, writer - directors Jay and Mark Duplass had established a comfy little niche in the Amerindie landscape, imbuing films like The Puffy Chair (2005) and Baghead (2008) with a shaggy - dog humor that's an antidote to all that SXSW - sponsored mopiness.

In the flashier villain role, Peter Dinklage manages to neither be menacing nor funny while seemingly striving for the offbeat success of Gadget's Rupert Everett or The Shaggy Dog's Robert Downey Jr..

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The nearly -60-year-old reflects on making Yeller, as well as The Shaggy Dog, Swiss Family Robinson, and in the midst of a 5 - movie year, The Absent - Minded Professor.

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I can say that I was drawn into this crazy world completely by Anderson and his merry pranksters, a shaggy dog mystery with a stoner Philip Marlowe applying of free - association investigative technique to various cases he's juggling, all of which eventually tangle together in some form or another in the great tradition of the PI drama.

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In this sequel to The Shaggy Dog, a now grown Wilby (played by Dean Jones) has almost forgotten all about the misfortunate mishap of his youth when he morphed into a mutt.