PICK OF THE LITTER follows a litter of puppies from the moment they're born and begin their quest to become guide dogs for the blind. Pick of the Litter is a great documentary about training dogs to become guide dogs for the blind. This movie follows five puppies from birth through The movie's information can feel a little too breezy: Sometimes it seems like it could be a presentation video titled "So You Want to Be a Guide Dog.
Please do not use ALL CAPS. There is no linking or other HTML allowed. Pick of the Litter follows a litter of puppies from the moment they're born and begin their quest to become Guide Dogs for the Blind, the ultimate canine career.
Cameras follow these pups through a two-year odyssey as they train to become dogs whose ultimate responsibility is to protect their blind. Phil, a guide dog, in the documentary "Pick of the Litter."Credit. Pick of the Litter affirms the obvious: the world is a much better place with dogs in it. And when the subject of your documentary is a litter of five adorable puppies, you don't really have to try that hard for an aww-inducing outcome. Nick & Kristen review the movie Pick of the Litter about Guide Dogs For The Blind in San Rafael, California. Pick of the Litter is a movie about dogs that's not really about dogs.
Trailer Pick of the Litter
Sure, on the surface, Don Hardy Jr. and Dana Nachman's "dogumentary" sets out to tell the stories of five Labrador retrievers—Patriot, Potomac, Primrose, Poppet, and Phil—as they're trained to become Guide Dogs for the Blind. But it's a shame Pick of the Litter doesn't locate a compelling human throughline to deepen its exploration of the sapiens-animal bond. Apart from the traumatised army vet who takes over guardianship of Patriot, and whose insistence that his charge is a star in the making speaks volumes.
Puppies rule in Pick of the Litter, Dana Nachman and Don Hardy's seriously cute account of the breeding and training program that prepares service dogs to become guides for the visually impaired. Pick of the Litter follows a litter of puppies from the moment they're born and begin their quest to become guide dogs for the blind. Cameras follow these pups through an intense two-year odyssey as they train to become dogs whose ultimate responsibility is to protect their blind partners from harm. Focusing on that litter of five — given the names Primrose, Patriot, Poppet, Potomac, and Phil — Hardy and Nachman observe unobtrusively as the barely weaned puppies are placed in specifically designed environments.