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The Plague Dogs

Summary: Two dogs escape from a laboratory and are hunted as possible carriers of the bubonic plague.

Release Date: January 09, 1985

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Animation

Director: Martin Rosen

Writers: Richard Adams

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Nepenthe Productions, United Artists, Goldcrest Films International

Distributor: Charter Entertainment, Trinity Home Entertainment, Shout! Factory, The Criterion Channel, Shout Select

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

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based on novel, based on book

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The Rotten Tomatoes audience rated this 27% higher than the critics.

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17% of the Stars & Main Cast are Female.

6% of the Stars & Main Cast are "diverse."

White94.12%Latino5.88%

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Message1/5
Role model2/5
Violence4/5
Language3/5
Drugs3/5

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Do you like watership down. But want to double down on the trauma

Woah boy this movie made by the same studio that brought watership down to the screen makes a beautiful but sad spectacle of a movie would reserve for older kids to adults pretty much full of sad moments involving two dogs escaping a animal testing facility and their struggle towards freedom running away from animal control and later the British military

Jul 18th 2023

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The Plague Dogs (and the Impact of Institutionalization) - Radical Reviewer

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Apr 23rd 2021

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The Plague Dogs

From since i remember, films directed towards children with animals, namely canines, have been produced with various family film production

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Feb 12th 2019

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LeVar Burton of Reading Rainbow rolls in his grave concerning this film. That is, hypothetically assuming that he is already dead. Kunta Ki

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Mar 30th 2019

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