{"id":208618,"date":"2025-12-02T15:30:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/netflixs-newest-hit-movie-is-this-2022-drama-about-an-unlikely-love-story\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T15:30:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:30:51","slug":"netflixs-newest-hit-movie-is-this-2022-drama-about-an-unlikely-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/netflixs-newest-hit-movie-is-this-2022-drama-about-an-unlikely-love-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix&#8217;s Newest Hit Movie Is This 2022 Drama About an Unlikely Love Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/media-network\/netflix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix<\/a> is just full of surprises, even when coming out of a long holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, the top films on Netflix\u2019s movie charts are action-oriented in some way. But one of the streamer\u2019s latest additions, <em>Dog<\/em>, is anything but an action film.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, this modestly budgeted 2022 drama starring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/channing-tatum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Channing Tatum<\/strong><\/a> is now a streaming hit on Netflix three years after its theatrical release.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the film has picked up an audience, it\u2019s time for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/watch-with-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch With Us<\/a> to share the three reasons to watch <em>Dog<\/em> on Netflix.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/this-neglected-christian-bale-drama-just-cracked-netflixs-top-10-movie-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-source=\"00\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/this-neglected-christian-bale-drama-just-cracked-netflixs-top-10-movie-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-source=\"00\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">This Neglected Christian Bale Drama Just Cracked Netflix&#8217;s Top 10 Movie List<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tWhen Hostiles hit theaters in 2017, it was largely greeted with a collective shrug despite starring Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike and a young Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet. However, the film\u2019s strong showing on Netflix has transformed Hostiles from a forgotten film into a streaming hit. Scott Cooper wrote and directed Hostiles from a story by Donald E. [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>It\u2019s a Passion Project For the Directors<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DOG | Valentine\u2019s Day Trailer | MGM Studios\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JL6p4IAI23Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tatum not only stars in this film, he also directed it with his frequent producing partner, <strong>Reid Carolin, <\/strong>from a story by <strong>Carolin<\/strong> and <strong>Brett Rodriguez<\/strong>. This movie marked the end of a five-year hiatus between live-action movies for Tatum, but he was drawn back to the screen by this project. He plays Jackson Briggs, a combat veteran who is escorting a former military dog, Lulu, across the country for the funeral of his friend and her former handler.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/channing-tatum-lulu-rook-cutie-dog-160022181.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yahoo News<\/a>, Tatum noted that the inspiration for this story was a road trip he took with his terminally ill dog, who was also named Lulu. In the film, Briggs only takes this assignment because he hopes it means the army will redeploy him despite his lingering brain trauma. However, Lulu is prone to violence after serving in the war. She\u2019s broken, and so is Briggs. The only difference between them is that she may be euthanized over her condition, while he has to keep on living.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Dog\u2019 Is a Love Story About Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dog (2022) - Giving a Dog a Bath Scene (3\/10) | Movieclips\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YA35hUiz3ac?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This film is listed as a comedy\/drama, but it\u2019s more of the latter than the former. What laughs there are in the movie come from Tatum\u2019s interactions with the dog and Briggs\u2019 attempt to pass himself off as a blind veteran to earn a comped stay at a luxury hotel. Most of the time, Briggs comes off just as emotionally wounded as Lulu is. That\u2019s where Tatum is at his most convincing as an actor.<\/p>\n<p>In its own way, this movie is a love story between a dysfunctional dog and her equally defective human companion. Briggs and Lulu don\u2019t immediately take to each other, but the audience gets to see the levels of trust they build with each other. Theirs is a bond that doesn\u2019t need words to seal it, although Tatum does enough talking for both of them. He makes the audience believe that Briggs has come to deeply cherish Lulu, and she is the thing that makes him a human being.<\/p>\n<h2>The Animal Performers Are Very Convincing<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dog (2022) - Military Funeral Scene (8\/10) | Movieclips\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Em1FRYFsfg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Animal performers don\u2019t always get their due, but they\u2019re also acting on-screen even though they don\u2019t understand the reasoning behind it. In this film, Lulu was played by three dog performers, <strong>Britta<\/strong>, <strong>Zuza<\/strong> and <strong>Lana<\/strong>, all of whom were identical Belgian Malinois breeds.<\/p>\n<p>Since the dogs were identical, it\u2019s difficult to tell which one performed which scene. But when Lulu needed to look fierce, afraid or emotionally comforting, the canine in question always conveyed exactly what they were supposed to at that moment in the film.\u00a0 Not every human actor can hit their marks like that. These dogs were well-trained, and their collective performances in the movie helped make it a satisfying and emotional story.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dog<\/em> is streaming on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81350890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/netflix-newest-hit-movie-is-this-2022-drama-about-an-unlikely-love-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is just full of surprises, even when coming out of a long holiday weekend. Typically, the top films on Netflix\u2019s movie charts are action-oriented in some way. But one of the streamer\u2019s latest additions, Dog, is anything but an action film. Instead, this modestly budgeted 2022 drama starring Channing Tatum is now a streaming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-208618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}