
Mother and daughter, Beth and Grace, find a bedraggled dog on the side of the freeway. Taking it home and rescuing it, the dog helps Grace meet a man. But Beth's husband, Joseph, hates the dog and just might cause even more friction in their marriage. While at their remote cabin for a weekend wedding with family, Joseph loses the dog and Beth isn't going home until they find it. With help from their nephew, Joseph's sister, her new boyfriend, and their psychic gypsy maid, the... (Full plot summary below)
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Mother and daughter, Beth and Grace, find a bedraggled dog on the side of the freeway. Taking it home and rescuing it, the dog helps Grace meet a man. But Beth's husband, Joseph, hates the dog and just might cause even more friction in their marriage. While at their remote cabin for a weekend wedding with family, Joseph loses the dog and Beth isn't going home until they find it. With help from their nephew, Joseph's sister, her new boyfriend, and their psychic gypsy maid, the family search high and low for the missing dog and in the process find that they also need to mend their own relationships.
Leave your thoughts about Darling Companion.
| Detroit NewsTom LongBetween the gypsy psychic and the distracting characters, "Darling Companion" loses its way. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerA pleasant little dawdle and yet another example, in these dog days for cinema, that dogs are a movie's best friend. |
| OregonianMarc MohanThe whole thing has the feel of a fact-based dinner-table anecdote absurdly puffed up to feature length. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA Lawrence-Kasdan directed dramody about how a lost dog helps a long-married couple find their way back to each other. |
| Ladue NewsDebbie BaldwinThis film is intelligent and beautifully acted. It's a movie about a group of people searching for a lost dog for days, and I never once looked at my watch. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip MartinI enjoyed Lawrence Kasdan's Darling Companion on several levels, even as I realized that it's not - by any standard criteria - a terribly good movie. |
| Miami HeraldConnie OgleYou don't have to love dogs to enjoy Darling Companion, but it couldn't hurt. |
| New York Magazine/VultureDavid EdelsteinIf you can stay awake, you'll see a performance by Keaton that is radiant in its simplicity, all ditheriness shaken off. She's still peaking - someone give her a great role. |
| AV ClubNathan RabinThe tone is mild, the setting is peaceful to the point of sleepiness, and the stakes are incredibly low, even with the heart-tugging central presence of an adorable animal in danger. |
| Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenWhile superbly acted, the dramedy plays out like a tepid "Big Chill" at best. |