Good Boy! story
Good Boy! is a 2003 American science fiction comedy film directed by John Hoffman, based on the book Dogs from Outer Space by Zeke Richardson. Synopsis: A boy befriends an intelligent dog from outer space.
21 total · 3 choice · 8 major · 10 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| friendship | choice | The story is about the 12-year-old boy Owen, who'd had trouble making close friends owing to his parents' serial renovation and reselling of houses, finding a best friend in a talking Border Terrier named Hubble. Owen also befriended the neighborhood kid Connie. |
| master and pet | choice | The story follows the 12-year-old boy Owen as he adopts a scruffy Border Terrier that he named Hubble. While it so happened that Hubble was a talking alien dog, and they soon developed a bond of friendship, they often pretended to be as master and pet to conceal Hubble's alien nature from the community. |
| where to make one's home | choice | The story culminated with the Baker family deciding to remain living in the neighborhood where Owen had formed various bonds of friendship, rather than continue their habit of moving from one place to the next. In a parallel development, Hubble chose to make his home with the Baker family, rather than return to his home planet Canid 3942 in the Sirius star system. |
| ability to communicate with animals | major | Owen woke up one morning to find that he was privy to the language of the dogs and he conversed with them throughout the film. |
| childhood as an outsider | major | The story follows the 12-year-old boy Owen in his struggles to make lasting relationships with others owing to his parents' habit of renovating and reselling houses. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | Owen's beloved pet dog Hubble was a space alien from the planet Canid 3942 in the Sirius star system. |
| father and son | major | The 12-year-old boy Owen and his father Mr. Baker were central to the story. |
| husband and wife | major | Mr. and Mrs. Baker we having such a good time renovating their home that they perhaps didn't pay enough attention to their young son Owen as they out to have done. |
| intelligent animal | major | The Border Terrier named Hubble and his rag-tag group of neighborhood dogs had the power of speech. In general, the idea was that humans could not understand the language of the dogs without a special translation device known as a "Barker". |
| love of a pet | major | Owen beloved his pet-cum-friend Border Terrier named Hubble. The neighborhood people devastated when their beloved pet dogs suddenly went missing. |