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Rated: PG; Length: 101 Minutes; Genres: Drama, Kids & Family; With: Jeremy James Kissner, Jon Voight and Jack Warden
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
If you've been longing to see the worst family entertainment of 1966, A Dog of Flanders may be the movie for you: It's as stilted and icky-wholesome as a bad episode from ''The Wonderful World of Disney.'' In the 18th century, a blond Dutch-boy orphan, living with his grandfather and faithful pooch, dreams of becoming a painter in the spirit of Rubens. Based on a popular children's book, the movie itself is a study in dankly lit farm-country interiors, ham actors uglified by muttonchops, and general quaint tedium. As the kindly artist-aristocrat who becomes the boy's mentor, Jon Voight takes a nothing role and gives it the benefit of his sweetness, a quality that has been all but doused in this once-great actor's recent performances.
Posted Aug 27, 1999
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- Video Review A Dog of Flanders | Michael Sauter
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- The Deal Report Who's making what? This week's announced projects | Adam B. Vary
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