Christopher Lloyd voices a dog angel. I need you to sit with that sentence.
Magic the dog is an angel sent to heal a broken family. Brad is a lawyer, doing the best he can to raise his daughter Kayla without the wife he misses. Kayla is longing for her mother, who died seven years before. Sarah is a medical research scientist who has had an epiphany caused by Magic the dog. As Magic escapes the research lab where he is a subject, and he is pursued by Dr. Ortero and the laboratory's entire security force, he fulfills his angelic role as the catalyst that helps Brad, Kayla and Sarah discover their love for each other. —Executive Producer
Acting
Christopher Lloyd commits to canine vocal work like it's Shakespeare.
Direction
Robert Davi directs AND plays the villain. King of multitasking.
Practical Effects
The dog is genuinely cute. Oscar-worthy performance from the actual dog.
Director
Robert Davi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Robert Davi, the director, is best known as a Bond villain in 'Licence to Kill' — his pivot to family dog movies is cinema's greatest heel turn.
This film exists in the sacred tradition of 'dogs fix broken humans' cinema, from Lassie to Marley & Me, but with the bold choice of making the dog literally divine rather than metaphorically so.
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