address problems that most filmmakers choose to ignore. In ``Year of the Dog,'' White turns his eye to lonely Is it really a love for animals, White asks, or is it merely displacement of affection, the substitution of a dog for a Girl'' and ``Chuck and Buck,'' the too happy about it, clings to her beagle, Pencil, like a animal shelter, who persuades her to adopt a new dog.
Peggy's snappy friend, Layla (Regina King), who is in Godboldo) to the altar, is aghast: ``How are you ever going dogs?
'' Peggy, however, hopes that she can get to overlook some rather obvious warning signs, such as when Newt confesses, ``I've always had better relationships As in ``The Good Girl,'' White insists that the your destiny. When Peggy decides to champion the cause of animal rights, she alienates everyone around her, including her fur-loving sister, Bret (a hilarious, scene-stealing Laura Dern, who creates the quintessential paranoid suburban mom), a neighbor (John C. Reilly) with an impressive taxidermy collection, and Robin (Josh Pais), Peggy's use.
But Shannon doesn't play Peggy as a pathetic figure, even though the movie keeps setting her up as exactly that (Peggy lives in Southern California, yet her pajamas covered with rose prints, etc.) Even when the idealism, Shannon retains her faith in the woman's goodness, and if she hadn't, ``Dog'' could world.
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