Dog Gone

Dog Gone (2023) is a family adventure you can watch online on iFILM, starring Rob Lowe and Kimberly Williams-Paisley and directed by Stephen Herek. The Netflix film is based on a true story: a young man loses his sick dog somewhere along the Appalachian Trail, and the clock is ticking on the animal's medication.

Fielder has always kept a careful distance from his father. Searching hundreds of kilometres of mountain wilderness together — with volunteers joining the effort after the story spreads online — closes that gap in the way a quiet Sunday conversation never would. The dog needs to be found. The relationship needs to be repaired. The two deadlines run in parallel.

Lowe plays the father with unusual restraint for this kind of material, which is what gives the late scenes between father and son their weight. It's earnest, a little sentimental, and entirely comfortable with both. Stream Dog Gone (2023) online on iFILM.