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Benji: Off the Leash! is a american film of genre Drama directed by Joe Camp released in USA on 26 march 2004 with Joey Miyashima
Benji: Off the Leash! (2004)
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Add to a movie listBenji: Off the Leash! is a 2004 American film comedy-drama that was shot in various parts of Utah.
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The film starts with the understanding that the makers of the Benji films are going to various towns in the U.S. looking for the next dog to play Benji. In a small Mississippi town, a freelance dog breeder named Hatchett keeps a backyard kennel under poor conditions behind his home. He lives with a young boy named Colby and his mother and is verbally abusive to them, but Colby loves dogs and secretly nurtures a female black dog who is Hathcett's top breeder. He goes to an abandoned house in the neighborhood and takes food and water to the black dog so she can produce milk for her new pups. Hatchett learns of this and takes the black puppies but abandons a fluffy, light-colored "mongrel". Over several months, Colby secretly cares for the puppy, and it grows into the unnamed fluffy dog that will become Benji.Actors
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