Red Dog: True Blue

Red Dog: True Blue (2016) is an Australian family adventure you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Kriv Stenders and set across the red dust of the Pilbara in Western Australia.

Eleven-year-old Mick (Levi Miller) is packed off to his grandfather's remote cattle station, bracing for a dull, lonely stretch. Instead he takes in a scruffy red pup of no known breed, and the two become inseparable through floods, cyclones and outback mischief. Bryan Brown plays the gruff grandfather. Years later, the grown Mick (Jason Isaacs) frames the whole tale while telling his own kids how a legend got started.

A prequel to 2011's Red Dog, the film traces the puppy years of the wandering dog who became a folk hero of the Australian bush. It stays warm without turning sticky, and it's honest about a childhood spent far from anywhere. Stream Red Dog: True Blue (2016) online on iFILM.