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Overview

User Rating:
4.9/10   6,770 votes
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Director:
Brian Levant
Writers (WGA):
Jim Kouf (screenplay) and
Tommy Swerdlow (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
18 January 2002 (USA) more
Tagline:
Get ready for mush hour!
Plot:
When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man. full summary | add synopsis
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1 win more
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A very cute and entertaining family film more (95 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Cuba Gooding Jr. ... Ted

James Coburn ... Thunder Jack

Sisqó ... Dr. Rupert Brooks (as Sisqo)

Nichelle Nichols ... Amelia

M. Emmet Walsh ... George

Graham Greene ... Peter Yellowbear
Brian Doyle-Murray ... Ernie

Joanna Bacalso ... Barb
Jean Michel Paré ... Olivier (as Jean-Michel Pare)
Michael Bolton ... Himself - Special Appearance
Jason Pouliotte ... Sneed Brother #1

David Boyce ... Sneed Brother #2

Frank C. Turner ... Neely
Ron Small ... Arthur

Alison Matthews ... TV Reporter
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Chiens des neiges (Canada: French title)
Winterdance (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG for mild crude humor.
Runtime:
99 min
Country:
Canada | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
Filming Locations:
Calgary, Alberta, Canada more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Inside the cave, Jack calls Ted a silly "greenhorn". 'James Coburn', who plays Jack, also used the term "greenhorn" in the movie Charade (1963). more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Ted shows Thunder Jack that he can eat cheese, Ted takes the cheese revealing a cheese smudge by his mouth, in the next shot it isn't there, but in the next shot it is back. more
Quotes:
Amelia: [on phone] Hey, honey. How's Alaska?
Ted: Oh, just great. Everything's white. Including my father!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "House M.D.: Frozen (#4.11)" (2008) more
Soundtrack:
Today more

FAQ

Are the dogs in Snow Dogs the same dogs used in Eight Below?
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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful.
A very cute and entertaining family film, 2 February 2008
6/10
Author: Kristine (kristinedrama14@msn.com) from Chicago, Illinois

My mom has been bugging me to watch Snow Dogs, it's funny because she hates Disney and I'm such a big fan, but these movies are always typical and I had no interest in seeing the movie. But my mom insisted again and again, so I finally went ahead and watched it last night, yeah, it was very silly and predictable, but it was fun to watch because it's such a fun family film. It had cheesy jokes here and there, but they made me laugh, the great thing I that I really liked was that they didn't computer enhance any voices for the dogs, it was just a natural performance for them and it made the story just a little bit more believable. I know everyone keeps claiming that Cuba Gooding, Jr. ruined his career by making these films, but he must be doing something right, because at least he's still getting paid for these films.

Ted is your typical Miami guy, he's a dentist, life is pretty decent for him, that is until he finds out that he's adopted. He finds out that his mother lived in Alaska, so he goes up there and finds out that his biological mother died recently, so he meets a girl, Barb, who tells him that his mother left him her house and top race winning dogs. A man, Jack, offers a lousy price for all of them, but he finds out that Jack is his father, and after hearing the story, Ted heads back to Miami. But he learns something different than Jack told him and heads back, but Jack is trapped in the mountains, and now Ted has to learn how to mush through the snow.

Snow Dogs is predictable and a common story, but it's all good, it's a cute family film that has a few cute jokes. I just loved the scene where Ted first learns how to mush, and the dogs know how incompetent he is so they play a joke on him and race him through the town while he's taped to the sled. It was silly, but Cuba's look on his face was just priceless. This is a fun little movie that the whole family can enjoy, I recommend it. The rating on IMDb is very harsh, just ignore it, this is a fun film.

6/10

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