Rescued by Ruby

Name: Rescued by Ruby
Genre: Drama, Family
Released: March 17, 2022
Cast: Brad Mann, Camille Sullivan, Eileen Pedde, Giacomo Baessato, Grant Gustin

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): March 17, 2022

Starring: Brad Mann, Camille Sullivan, Eileen Pedde, Giacomo Baessato, Grant Gustin, Jude Culham-Keays, Kaylah Zander, Sharon Taylor, Todd Mann, Tom McBeath

Summary: State trooper Dan (Grant Gustin) dreams of joining the K-9 Search & Rescue team, but no one will give him the chance. Shelter dog Ruby dreams of having a home, but is running out of hope. When fate brings Dan and Ruby together, it’s their unshakable bond that helps them face their toughest challenge yet. Based on a true story. [Netflix]

Director: Katt Shea

Genre(s): Drama, Family

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Movie Nation Roger Moore

Mar 18, 2022

An utterly adorable hero dog tale based on a true story. Read full review

William Bibbiani

Mar 17, 2022

It’s a difficult world out there, so once in a while it sure is nice to just sit down with the family to watch a wholesome movie about a wholesome man, his wholesome dog, and their tireless, never-ending hunt for human corpses. Read full review

Screen Rant Rachel LaBonte

Mar 17, 2022

All told, Rescued by Ruby is perhaps not the most revolutionary dog movie audiences are likely to find, but it will certainly do the trick if one is looking for something sweet and inspiring. With little real drama and plenty of adorable puppy shots, Shea's film goes down easy. Read full review

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Mar 18, 2022

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pabloretana

Mar 31, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Daniel O’Neil (Grant Gustin) is a Rhode Island state trooper who dreams of joining the K9 unit. He is “qualified in a bunch of other trooper specialties”, such as “hostage negotiating, EVOC training, peer-to-peer counseling, honor guard, boat team, dive team,” but his dream eludes him because “K9 team requires calm and focus.” And hostage negotiating doesn’t? Captain Zarella (Scott Wolf) sure runs a tight ship, if he can afford to reject, because he “can't even sit still,” a guy who is supposedly qualified to negotiate with violent criminals.

Dan won’t take ‘no’ for an answer, though, especially after his wife Melissa (Kaylah Zander) gives him the news that they’re expecting a second child. Promotion to K9 “It's a step up, a raise. We'll finally be able to pay off college loans, save for our kids, maybe get a bigger house someday.” Unless these dogs are trained to find drugs which the troopers would then resell, I find these claims of financial independence rather hard to believe.

Dan discovers that a K-9 dog doesn't have to be a $10,000 German Shepherd, as Zarella had led him to believe when he told Dan that “The department has no money for new dogs.” Dan then goes to a shelter and adopts the titular Ruby, a half border collie that looks like Laddie but behaves like Santa’s Little Helper. Yada yada yada, Dan and Ruby make the K9 unit.

All of this is ostensibly “based on a true story,” but I call bullsh*t. The climax involves Dan and Ruby finding a boy who got lost while hiking. This boy turns out to be the son of Pat (Camille Sullivan) the woman who runs the shelter where Dan found Ruby. Pat, who up until this point we had absolutely no idea even had a son, let alone that he’d gotten lost in the woods, had saved Ruby from being put down just prior to Dan adopting her. Rhode Island is the smallest U.S. state by area, but it can’t be this small.

That, however, it’s just the tip of the bullsh*t iceberg. Before the closing credits we get a Where Are They Now? Epilogue, complete with photos of the characters’ real-life counterparts. One such picture is labeled “The O’Neil Family,” and in it we can see that the real Melissa is about three times the size of the actress playing her. I’m not saying she’s ‘fat,’ but director Katt Shea (who once upon a time directed Poison Ivy, as well as several other erotic thrillers) clearly thought she was; otherwise, why get the slender Zander to play her?… Expand

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