Darling Companion

Darling Companion
Directed by Lawrence Kasdan
Produced by Elizabeth Redleaf
Written by Lawrence Kasdan
Meg Kasdan
Starring Mark Duplass
Richard Jenkins
Diane Keaton
Kevin Kline
Elisabeth Moss
Sam Shepard
Dianne Wiest
Ayelet Zurer
Music by James Newton Howard
Cinematography Michael McDonough
Edited by Carol Littleton
Production
company
Werc Werk Works
Kasdan Pictures
Likely Story
Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics (USA)
Sierra/Affinity (non-USA)[1]
Release dates
  • January 26, 2012 (2012-01-26) (Santa Barbara Film Festival)
  • April 20, 2012 (2012-04-20) (United States)
Running time
103 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $12 million
Box office $793,815

Darling Companion is a 2012 drama film directed by Lawrence Kasdan, written by Kasdan and his wife Meg, and starring Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline. Filming took place in Utah in 2010 and was released on April 20, 2012.

Plot

Beth Winter (Keaton) rescues a lost dog from the roadside and names him Freeway. Her children have grown up and moved away, and her husband, Joseph (Kline), is distracted and self-involved. Beth forms a strong friendship with the dog and is deeply upset when, after her daughter's wedding, her husband loses the dog. They engage the service of a psychic gypsy to find the dog again.

In the end after finally giving up, the family boards an airplane. While flying over the mountains, Beth sees the dog and her husband fakes a ruptured appendix to have the pilot turn the airplane around. In one last attempt at a search, they scour the trees in the area Beth saw the dog, when at last Freeway appears in a field and runs to Beth, reunited at last, bringing the family closer together.

Cast

Reception

Darling Companion received mostly negative reviews from critics and was a box-office flop. Rotten Tomatoes gives it a score of 22% based on 81 reviews.[2]

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