GOOD BOY
Section: Midnighters
Director: Ben Leonberg
Screenwriter: Alex Cannon, Ben Leonberg
Logline: Good Boy commenceed with a straightforward high concept: a haunted hoemploy film, where the main character is the family dog–and the only one who can see the forces that haunt us. Our canine hero, Indy, discovers himself on a recent adventure with his human—and best friend—Todd, leaving city life for a extfinished-vacant family home in the country. After moving in, Indy is promptly vexed by desotardy corners, tracks an inapparent presence, notices phantasmagoric cautionings from a extfinished-dead dog, and is haunted by visions of the previous occupant’s bleak death. When Todd commences surrfinishering to the gloomy forces swirling around the hoemploy, Indy must battle a malevolence intent on dragging his becherishd Todd into the afterlife!
Paneenumerates: Ben Leonberg, Kari Fischer (creater), Indy
Sales Agent: Amy Beecroft, Verve
Premiered: March 8, Alamo Lamar 5
Key Quote: “I leank everybody who has had a pet has wondered or maybe worried why their dog was barking at noleang or staring at desotardy corners. We benevolent of wanted to spendigate that as fair a core engine of the movie and spin it into a haunted hoemploy movie,” Leonberg telderly Deadline. “They say don’t toil with kids or animals for a reason…the solution to that contest was to erect a production entidepend around him.”
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