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Where the Red Fern Grows Reviews

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During the Great Depression, a boy works hard and saves up to buy two hunting dogs. Owner and animals soon bond as they go on a series of adventures together, which include participating in a local hunting competition.

A boy-and-his-dog story (actually, two dogs) is given the sappiest treatment this side of "The Waltons," as a poor Oklahoma lad, his pets, and his family struggle to get by on a 1930s farm. Competently made but highly contrived so as to evoke as many "aw's" as possible in an hour and a half, this movie is only for the extremely naive.