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Air Bud is a american film of genre Drama directed by Charles Martin Smith released in USA on 1 august 1997 with Michael Jeter
Air Bud (1997)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 1 august 1997
Length 1h30
Directed by Charles Martin Smith
OriginUSA
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Basketball films, Films about dogs, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Rating53%
Air Bud is a 1997 American family comedy film that sparked the franchise centered on the real-life dog, Buddy, a Golden Retriever. The film was financially successful, grossing $4 million in its opening weekend and totaling $27.7 million in its run, against an estimated $3 million budget.
Synopsis
The film opens with an unsuccessful professional clown, Norman F. Snively, and his dog by the name of "Old Blue," doing a show at a birthday party. Due to the dog causing trouble at the birthday party and both being tossed out of the house, Snively angrily takes him in a kennel to a dog pound, until the kennel falls off his truck. The dog is homeless until he meets a 12-year-old boy, Josh Framm (whom the plot mainly revolves around). After the death of his father, who died in a plane crash during a test flight (indicated in the headline of a framed newspaper article briefly read by Josh), Josh moves with his family from Virginia to Fernfield, Washington. Due to heartbreak over his father's passing, he is too shy to try out for his middle school's basketball team and to make any friends. He instead becomes the basketball team's manager, an absurd offer by coach Joe Barker which he accepts. He practices basketball by himself in a makeshift court that he sets up in a disused allotment, where he first meets the dog, naming him Buddy. Josh soon learns that Buddy has the uncanny ability to play basketball.Actors
Michael Jeter
(Norm Snively)
Kevin Zegers
(Josh Framm)
Wendy Makkena
(Jackie Framm)
Bill Cobbs
(Arthur Chaney)
Eric Christmas
(Judge Cranfield)
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