'Everyone, no matter how down they are, has something valuable to offer.” That's the basic premise of the new indie film “The Year of the Dog,” which explores abuse, addiction, love and the bond between humans and animals.
As a child in small Alaskan towns along the Iditarod Trail, Rob Grabow watched dogsleds fly past on their way to colder, even more remote environments.
The movie tells the intertwined stories of protagonist Matt and Yup’ik, a Husky stray with “an unusual athletic gift.” The two meet by chance after Matt moves onto his AA sponsor’s acreage to work as a handyman. It’s soon clear that Yup’ik and Matt have much to offer one another, despite both meeting at rock bottom. Matt, for his part, is struggling to stay sober at the request of his dying mother — who just wants to see him clear-headed once more before her death.
Yup’ik is played by a real-life California rescue dog named Caleb, who was passed between homes because he was “too much dog” and “too energetic,” Grabow said. That gave him an unpredictable, deeply endearing personality. Other dogs in the film came from Berthoud’s Tru North Kennels, a working- and show-dog breeder that provided Malamutes Sampson and Joyful , as well as the mixed-breed Mars .
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