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[Place of publication not identified] : IFC Films & Entertainment, [2016]
©2016
©2015
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1 videodisc (89 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Originally released as a motion picture in 2015
Wiener-Dog tells several stories featuring people who find their life inspired or changed by one particular dachshund, who seems to be spreading a certain kind of comfort and joy. Mans best friend starts out teaching a young boy some contorted life lessons before being taken in by a compassionate vet tech named Dawn Wiener. Dawn reunites with someone from her past and sets off on a road trip picking up some depressed mariachis along the way. Wiener-Dog then encounters a floundering film professor, as well as an embittered elderly woman and her needy granddaughterall longing for something more
Director of photography, Ed Lachman ; editor, Kevin Messman
Ellen Burstyn, Keaton Nigel Cooke, Kieran Culkin, Julie Delpy, Danny DeVito, Greta Gerwig, Tracy Letts, Zosia Mamet
MPAA rating: R for Language and some disturbing content
DVD ; widescreen (16:9) presentation, 5.1 Dolby surround
"Official selection 2016 Sundance Film Festival."