Not exact matches
Parents
whose children are injured because they weren't in a proper car seat, didn't bolt a TV or furniture to the wall, co-slept or put their baby in an unsafe
sleep environment, smoke constantly around their asthmatic child, leave medications or drugs out, think that the
dog licking their child's face is «cute», refuse to vaccinate, etc etc etc..
Doc,
whose own girlfriend has just kicked him out, learns his
dog Bagel has been put to
sleep.
There are also nods to well - known New Zealand works of the 1970s from the likes of Kiwi filmmakers Peter Weir (especially his zoom shots), Geoff Murphy (
whose Goodbye Pork Pie inspired the car chase sequences) and Roger Donaldson (elements of his
Sleeping Dogs are woven in here), as well as to classic Hollywood action films, from The Terminator to First Blood to The Fugitive to a catchphrase made popular by Michael Bay's Bad Boys 2.
Director / co-writer Kelly Reichardt, who established her style of naturalistic, deviously aimless filmmaking with the acclaimed «Old Joy» a couple of years back, gives us a portrait of a gal
whose wayward existence — washing up in gas - station bathrooms, picking up cans on the sidewalk,
sleeping in her car — makes her every bit as lost in America as her
dog.
They are, in other words, the polar opposite of the
dog now
sleeping at my feet, a desperate - to - please golden retriever
whose primary need is reassurance that yes, he is still part of the pack.
It is not unusual for people
whose dogs have nipped / bitten / threatened them to think that their
dog can find a new home so that they don't have to face the prospect of putting a
dog to
sleep.
As one contributor to the Senior - L e-mail list noted, her vet said she simply had ``... an old
dog who
sleeps VERY soundly and
whose sphincter muscle is wearing out.»