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Tom Hanks, Reginald VelJohnson, Mre Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, John McIntyre

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Ryan

I was 5 when this movie came out, and in the wake of Big my parents figured it would be perfectly fine to show little kids, in those days where you couldn't check on the Internet. Yeah, it didn't work out that way.

Erin Mileur

Soul Man as Rick James said "Cocaine is a hell of a drug".

Daniel Lydford

When I was a kid we gave our dog a piece of chocolate cake for it's first birthday. Yes, chocolate is not good for dogs, but it's unsweetened chocolate that is really bad. A few chocolate chips aren't going to hurt a dog that size.

Erin Mileur

Roger Spotiswood is also the director of the infamous Sylvester Stallone disaster Stop or My Mother Will Shoot (1992).

Youtalkingtome

I feel like most parents got near the end in the theater and thought "oops."

Youtalkingtome

The title alone should have scared off all involved.

Youtalkingtome

The 80s, man. Where a cop in a movie can say "this dog is a witness to a murder" with no sense of irony.

Youtalkingtome

For sure, milk chocolate in tiny amounts is pretty harmless.

Daniel Lydford

Estelle Getty (The Golden Girls) played Stallone's mother.

Daniel Lydford

The most shirtless Tom Hanks is surely in Cast Away, right?

Jonathan Eaton

The Burbs is considered a cult classic these days.

Annie519

I love this movie! It was just such a funny and clever concept to have a person with OCD and have him take in a big and rambunctious dog and not only that but he has to. I loved his growth as the film went on, you saw him loosen up more and more. I also thought it was very sweet that he stayed to investigate the murder because it was Amos, I don't think he would have taken it if it was a stranger. It showed that he really was fond and friends with him, he wasn't just someone he tolerated or played nice with and you're also really rooting for him to solve the case because Amos was just a sweet old man. The dog and the trainers were great and that breed of dog is just so cute! And yeah, the ending is sad but to me it's bittersweet. It's sad that we lose him but at the same time at least Hooch was back with Amos and this allows Scott to have a dog that's completely his. They actually used 3 dogs and Tom Hanks really did get choked up during that final scene with him because he did grow a bond with the dogs, especially the main one. And another fun fact, the audio of him yelling at Hooch about the car was used to convince the studio or it may have been him to give him the role of Woody. It's crazy to think that's how long they had been working on Toy Story, which didn't come out until 6 year later. If you want a great dog movie with excellent animal trainers then I strongly recommend Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993). They don't just tackle dogs but they are the main focus.

streaky

That's a proper classic. I used to think Hooch died, as I got older and learned more about vet stuff, and the differences back then and now, I actually think she puts Hooch to sleep to save him from suffering. Vetenary surgery is a lot more advanced these days, much closer to human medicine, but back then I don't think they would have tried to save him and made him suffer. I'm a huge fan of acting dogs - acting animals in general really - but this is such an important one, he was called Beasley and he's a French Mastiff given you asked :) Also yeah there's some interesting camera angles on Tom Hanks in this one lol.

Paul T Hewes

-The 80s and Tom Hanks did ALL KINDS OF CRAP. You wouldnt believe. -Hooch going is still a horrible gut punch after all these years. -"80s kids movies" were a whole other thing. I was born in 75 and literally grew up in the 80s and "kids" movies were totally different. Gremlins for instance...A KIDS MOVIE.

Youtalkingtome

Gremlins: "We smelled my dad decomposing in the chimney." My god.

Clare Manion

Just starting, but: “This guy desperately needs a dog” hahaha! Yes, that or a toddler. I’m in the process of certifying as a foster parent, and toddlers - oh boy - how would you like 5 puppies in a trench coat? But they’re so darling it doesn’t matter a bit… I’m sorry, what were we talking about? lol. Anyway, Hooch is a good boy. Drooley, but good.

Kt B

This is the Tom Hanks I grew up with! I was 10 when we saw this in theaters. We didn’t go because it was a “kids’ movie,” we went because it was a Tom Hanks movie. He had about one per year, and the earliest one I can remember was Splash. He had more than a decade of goofy, silly, raucous characters under his belt before he turned serious, and this is still what I remember most. Also, lots of young actors showed a lot of skin in the ‘80s. It was very common for actresses to parade around in bikinis and bandeaus, so this seems a bit more equitable.

Clare Manion

Just finished the movie - Oh man, I forgot about the ending. Totally agreed, quite the gut-punch out of nowhere in an otherwise fun dog/buddy cop movie. Loved the stories about your own dogs though... Also, it was very cute just now - right at the scene where Hooch has tucked himself into bed, I look over and there's Viv (my dog) stretched out asleep in the bed, head on pillow and the whole bit. Life mimicking art indeed 😆

Suzanne Whyte

Watching this as an adult I can’t help but think the vet isn’t a good dog owner. She let her unspayed pedigree dog escape to wander the streets and bring home a random dog who got her pregnant. Also, is that how dog genetics works? Four pure bred looking collies that take after their mom and a puppy that looks just like it’s dad? No mixes?

Tina

I mean, it's a collie, they are mega smart. I had to laugh at your comment, our mutt ran around our village in the 80s every trash day, for smart dogs, this war pretty normal at the time, even if there were neighbours who didn't find this as funny as my dad. He also got a pedigree poodle pregnant. I believe the poodle's owner was associated somehow with the Catholic church, and incensed. Whoops.

Suzanne Whyte

It’s not really a serious movie and it was the 80’s. It’s just that she’s a vet. If her dog isn’t spayed then it’s because she intends to breed her. Why wasn’t she more careful with her? Although, I guess I’m being a bit harsh. I had a border collie that escaped our fully fenced garden and had to be retrieved from someone’s garden a mile up the road. I never figured out how she escaped.

Tina

I'm so glad I went to the comments to get spoiled before watching this! I don't like movies in general, I like longform storytelling, so if I think I might want to watch a movie with you, I go to the comments to see if I should. I'm still a snotty tear monster now, but at least I knew it was coming. Some 80s movies really were surprisingly ruthless. I'm super into trigger warnings (see above), and advocate for their right to exist for everyone. But I also think it's no contradiction that stuff like dog deaths should get shown maybe is a bit more realistically than our current storytelling best practices do. As a child of the 80s and teen of the 90s growing up in western Europe with US TV, I didn't get confronted with reality of death and bad or mixed endings much, so death and stuff like caring for the elderly and how hard that is always comes as a surprise, now - feel-good popular culture does have its role in that. At least Grimms' fairytales prepared you for evil, selfish adults at every turn...

Brian Harris

That last scene in the vet's office is the reason Tom Hanks is a movie star. I'm convinced of it. America liked him, but they didn't LOVE him until they watched him lose his dog. And you know, I think they DID need to end the movie that way. They could have done something else, but it wouldn't have felt as true. Besides, Scott needed that ending to complete his arc. Remember the conversation with the vet where he says he can't get involved with her because he doesn't want to risk getting hurt? Hooch taught him that love is worth the risk of loss.

Tina

Yeah, that's exactly what I meant. Collies, or herding dogs in general, and huskies are escape artists, so their owners need to be cut slack in my opinion. (A collie/husky mix?! Why would one do that to themselves?! 😂) But still I get your point, Suzanne!

Suzanne Whyte

Your story did remind me of one that my grandparents used to tell about my great- grandfather’s border collie. It would let itself out of the gate every afternoon and walk a few miles to the local pub where it would sit outside and wait to meet my great-grandfather as he stopped at the pub after finishing his work shift. Some dogs are too smart.

fire12wife

Sorry, for the gut punch fellas, but I really wanted you to see this one. The biggest reason the ending hurts so much is because it is such a great movie right up to that point! If it wasn't very good, you wouldn't care as much what happened to Hooch. I watched this hundreds of times as a kid. I was a freshman in high school when it came out. They made smarter choices in this movie than a lot of '80s movies. The actual crime in this movie was done very well. It wasn't at all a kids movie, or a spoof of a cop movie. I particularly liked the scene where Scott was being held at gunpoint by Zach Gregory in his car, and just by putting his seatbelt on, he was able to eject Zack through the windshield! Also, I do have to say that with the millions of movies that have mostly naked women in them, I was very ok with a young Tom Hanks in his tiny underwear! LOL! Although, after the invention of the boxer brief, ALL of the tiny underwear in the world should have been burned! Hahahaaa! Now that you know the ending of this movie, it makes it an easier rewatch. While I still hate that Hooch had to die, Tom Hanks really did this one well, and it will always be one of my favorites of his! Thanks for watching this one for me! It was a great reaction as always!

Youtalkingtome

Yes! There's a reason the man has two Oscars and you can see it here.

Youtalkingtome

LOL I was thinking the same thing. That's just not how genetics work