Shiloh

Based on the Newberry Award-winning novel by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, this heartwarming tale of a boy and his dog reaches for greater significance and depth than the typical entry in the kids' movie genre. Blake Heron stars as Marty Preston, a kid who lives in a rural town with his mom and mailman ...more

Boy-and-his-dog movies don't get much more prototypical than Shiloh. In fact, it may surprise viewers that Shiloh was released as recently as 1996, since it's quaint and old-fashioned enough to have come out 30 years earlier. But something about Shiloh found an audience, or, at least, enough of one to prompt sequels in 1999 and 2006. The film is quite straightforward -- hunter abuses dog, dog finds boy, boy embraces dog, hunter tries to get dog back, boy fights to save dog from hunter's evil ...more