The Shaggy Dog
Directed byDennis Dugan
Written byFelix Salten
Bill Walsh
Lillie Hayward
Tim Doyle
Produced byScott Immergut
Irwin Marcus
Les Mayfield
Joseph B. Wallenstein
George Zaloom
StarringEd Begley Jr.
Sharon Lawrence
Jon Polito
James Cromwell
Jeremy Sisto
CinematographyRuss T. Alsobrook
Edited byJeff Gourson
Distributed byZM Productions, Walt Disney Television
Release date
12 November 1994
Running time
96 minutes
LanguageEnglish

The Shaggy Dog is a 1994 remake of the original 1959 film and the first remake of that film before the newest 2006 remake. It was released as a television movie.

Plot

Preteen Moochie Daniels just wants a dog, but his dad, Daniel, is allergic to canines, like Bundles, the shabby sheep dog of neighbor Charlie Mulvihill who secretly trained his pet to help him steal jewels. Mooch's big brother Wilbert 'Wilby' is smart, shy and a promising inventor, but hopelessly clumsy when it comes to girls, and is jealous of his slick mate Trey who has no problems. Desperate Wilby resorts to a spell from the ring of Lucrezia Borgia (he accidentally got from dad's museum of curiosities), which magically turns him into Bundles and back at uncontrollable times. This is how he also knows that the diamond on loan in his father's museum is Charlie's next target, but who would believe his story?

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Reception

The film currently holds a rating of 5.1 on imdb.com

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