Drama
John Travolta is a downtrodden single father raising his daughter under difficult circumstances in Chicago. The young girl comes upon and then nurses a wounded Doberman used for fighting, back to health. Duped by underworld types he was working as a courier for, father and daughter leave the dog and flee cross-country to Los Angeles with both canine and mobsters in pursuit.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Top of the World
Scarface
Doctor Zhivago
The China Syndrome
Barren Lives
American Graffiti
Cinderella Man
Gemini: The Twin Stars
Breathless
The Cotton Club
Paranoid Park
No Good Deed
Jack & Sarah
Breakdown
Une glace avec deux boules...
Beste Zeit
Music Box
The Glass House
Three Times
The Silence
SIMILAR MOVIES
Top of the World
IMDB 4.3 | Sep , 1993
One parting married couple, plus two guys and two gals, interact during a Thanksgiving weekend at a roomy home in the Colorado Rockies.Scarface
IMDB 7.4 | Apr , 1932
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.Doctor Zhivago
IMDB 7.5 | Dec , 1965
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.The China Syndrome
IMDB 7.1 | Mar , 1979
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.Barren Lives
IMDB 7.4 | Aug , 1963
In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of Brazil during the drought. A family in the search of new hope and destiny.American Graffiti
IMDB 7 | Aug , 1973
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.Cinderella Man
IMDB 7.6 | Jun , 2005
The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.Gemini: The Twin Stars
IMDB 7 | May , 1988
"GEMINI - THE TWIN STARS" is a story of star-crossed friendship, growing from one young man's flight from danger and another's quest for adventure. This lush and romantic thriller moves from New York to Geneva, and from remote Swiss mountain villages to the jet-set night life of Mykonos.Breathless
IMDB 5.9 | May , 1983
Jesse, a small-time criminal, high-tails it to Los Angeles to rendezvous with a French exchange student. Stealing a car and accidentally killing a highway patrolman, he becomes the most wanted fugitive in L.A.The Cotton Club
IMDB 6.5 | Dec , 1984
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.Paranoid Park
IMDB 6.5 | Jul , 2007
A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".No Good Deed
IMDB 5.4 | Jun , 2002
While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery.Jack & Sarah
IMDB 6.7 | Jun , 1995
Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. However, when Sarah goes into labour, he takes a tumble down the stairs and lands on his head. When he comes around he discovers he is the proud father of a baby girl, but deficient in the spouse department to the tune of 1.Breakdown
IMDB 6.9 | May , 1997
On their cross-country drive, a married couple, Jeff and Amy Taylor, experience car trouble after their SUV breaks down. Stranded in the New Mexico desert, the two catch a break when a passing truck driver offers Amy a ride to a nearby café to call for help. Meanwhile, Jeff is able to fix the car and make his way to the café, but Amy isn't there. He tracks down the trucker ― who tells the police he's never seen Jeff or his wife before. Jeff then begins a desperate, frenzied search for Amy.Une glace avec deux boules...
IMDB 3.7 | Mar , 1982
A film about a pair of sisters, whose parents are divorcing after their father leaves their mother for a younger woman, and who plot together to try to repair their fractured family.Beste Zeit
IMDB 6.1 | Jul , 2007
Kati drives the VW bus of her parents even without a license quite fast. But what else should one do in the Bavarian province? Kati and her best friend Jo keep asking themselves this question when they philosophize about God and the world with the tip in one hand and the beer in the other hand. After all, Kati's swarm Mike has just come back from the Bundeswehr, but while she dreams of the great love, he seems to take the matter far less seriously. And there's only stress with her dad.Music Box
IMDB 7.1 | Dec , 1989
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.The Glass House
IMDB 6 | Sep , 2001
When Ruby and Rhett's parents are killed in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenly shattered. Moving to an incredible house in Malibu with the Glasses', old friends of the family, seems to be the beginning of a new life for them.Three Times
IMDB 7 | Oct , 2005
In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history and governance.The Silence
IMDB 7.5 | Sep , 1963
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.