Wiener-Dog (2016)
Director
Todd Solondz
Main cast
Ellen Burstyn; Kieran Culkin; Julie Delpy; Danny DeVito; Greta Gerwig
Genres
Comedy
Description
Wiener-Dog tells several stories featuring people who find their life inspired or changed by one particular dachshund, who seems to be spreading a certain kind of comfort and joy. Manâs best friend starts out teaching a young boy some contorted life lessons before being taken in by a compassionate vet tech named Dawn Wiener. Dawn reunites with someone from her past and sets off on a road trip picking up some depressed mariachis along the way. Wiener-Dog then encounters a floundering film professor, as well as an embittered elderly woman and her needy granddaughterâall longing for something more.
Todd Solondz
Main cast
Ellen Burstyn; Kieran Culkin; Julie Delpy; Danny DeVito; Greta Gerwig
Genres
Comedy
Description
Wiener-Dog tells several stories featuring people who find their life inspired or changed by one particular dachshund, who seems to be spreading a certain kind of comfort and joy. Manâs best friend starts out teaching a young boy some contorted life lessons before being taken in by a compassionate vet tech named Dawn Wiener. Dawn reunites with someone from her past and sets off on a road trip picking up some depressed mariachis along the way. Wiener-Dog then encounters a floundering film professor, as well as an embittered elderly woman and her needy granddaughterâall longing for something more.
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