Kriv Stenders’ "Red Dog" is a domesticated family drama about a hitchhiking hound that actually united a remote Australian mining community in the 1970s. ... (Noah Taylor) and promptly become ...

His story is told in flashback, as Red Dog lies dying in 1971 after ingesting strychnine (cause or fault is never pursued). Truck driver Tom (Luke Ford, nodding a great deal) arrives in town on ...