Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story is very similar to a Jack London piece where a dog crosses the entire country to find its master, making friends with several other animals along the way. In Natty Gann, instead of a dog you have a young girl who is befriended by a wolf and journeys westward in search for her father...
...SURPRISING thing about Natty Gann is that despite its simplicity and predictability, the movie is neither dull nor unsatisfying. The movie moves fast, probably to retain the interest of young children. Jumping from a dog fight to a train ride with hobbos to an escape from railroad policemen, the film gives you little time to pop your bubblegum...
...long, low buildings of Concord, with their barred doors, cinder-block walls, and linoleum floors, couldn't be more different from the cozy and chaotic PLAP office. Phones ring incessantly over the classical music playing on the stereo, and office manager Daria M. Aumand's dog pads about, greeting everyone at the door...
...make too much of it -- after all, elsewhere in the land, philatelists no doubt gathered, and show-dog owners, possessors of spinning wheels, antique crockery, vintage automobiles or sows that would fetch blue ribbons at any county fair -- but the Titusville event swept you back and held you stuck in time through the course of an afternoon (Why does the word stirring come uncharacteristically to mind?). Any sucker for a Zippo lighter, a cracked leather flight jacket, the music of Glenn Miller or the recollection of a sassy riveter with a mouth like a beesting would have found peace...
...Haley spoke about his "shaggy-dog" technique: get the patient to make an absolute commitment to change, then guarantee a cure but do not tell the patient what it is for several weeks. "Once you postpone, you never lose them as patients," he said. "They have to find out what the cure is." One bulimic who ate in binges and threw up five to 25 times a day was told she would be cured if she gave the therapist a penny the first time she vomited and doubled the sum each time she threw up. Says Haley: "They quickly figure...